Unfit for the Future
The Need for Moral Enhancement
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23393293 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ingmar Persson (0000-0001-6452-9411, University of Basel), Julian Savulescu (0000-0003-1691-6403, University of Basel) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Publication date | 2012-07-19 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Unfit for the Future (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199653645.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W1614525956 |
| Open Library | OL26136176M |
| ISBN | 9780199653645 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 115 |
This text argues that the future of our species depends on radical enhancement of the moral aspects of our nature. Population growth and technological advances are threatening to undermine the conditions of worthwhile life on Earth forever. We need to modify to deal with this challenge.
Authoritarianism · Commons · Democracy · Environmental ethics · Law and economics · Liberal democracy · Morality · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Tragedy (event) · Tragedy of the commons · Law · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations · Philosophy · Bioethics · Moral motivation · Motivation (psychology)
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Human Enhancement Ethics and Uncertainty
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Quantifying the probability of existential catastrophe
Reparative futures in a thick, virtuous present
The ethics of doing human enhancement ethics
Agential risks and information hazards
Pushed for Being Better
Is Transhumanism Necessarily Utilitarian? Recasting Alternative Ethical Systems Towards a Future Human Flourishing
Wittgenstein and Forms of Life
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Empathy training through virtual reality
The epidemiology of moral bioenhancement
Love and romantic relationship in the domain of medicine
Enhancing the collectivist critique
Ethical (mis)use of prehistory
The volitional approach to surrogate decision making
Towards a systematic evaluation of moral bioenhancement
The Better Choice? The Status Quo versus Radical Human Enhancement
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Should We Aim to Create a Perfect Healthy Utopia? Discussions of Ethical Issues Surrounding the World of Project Itoh’s Harmony
On the (Non-)Rationality of Human Enhancement and Transhumanism
Why a Virtual Assistant for Moral Enhancement When We Could have a Socrates
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Socrates in the fMRI Scanner
Feeling bad about mass murders
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Enhancement, Autonomy, and the Limits of Beneficence
Love (Drugs), Happiness, and Morality
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Transhumanism Without Transindividuation in the Age Without Epochality
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Human enhancement and morality
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The Role of Emotions in the Capabilities Approach
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Moral progress, epistemic vices, and corporations
Ethical and legal considerations of mood enhancement technology
Lost in Time
Free will, quarantines, and moral enhancements
Moral and Fictional Discourses on Assisted Reproductive Technologies
Are Better Workers Also Better Humans? On Pharmacological Cognitive Enhancement in the Workplace and Conflicting Societal Domains
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Emotions and political rhetoric
Virtuous Play
How to read for current developments in human genetics relevant to justice
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Rage against the authority machines
In Service to Others
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Disruption and emergence
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Techno-optimism
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Neurobiology and the Good
How and why people want to be more moral
La simplification transhumaniste de la subjectivité humaine
The Cambridge Companion to Life and Death
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La biología sintética y el imperativo de mejoramiento
El biomejoramiento moral y su relación con la ética y la justicia
La función ideológica del transhumanismo y algunos de sus presupuestos
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| Unique citing works | 115 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 8,21 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 90 |