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A Kantian ethics approach to moral bioenhancement
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Carter S
Bioethics
2017[Nov]; 31
(9
): 683-690
PMID28873235
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It seems, at first glance, that a Kantian ethics approach to moral enhancement
would tend towards the position that there could be no place for emotional
modulation in any understanding of the endeavour, owing to the typically
understood view that Kantian ethics does not allow any role for emotion in
morality as a whole. It seems then that any account of moral bioenhancement which
places emotion at its centre would therefore be rejected. This article argues,
however, that this assumption is incorrect. Given later writings by Kant on the
role of sympathy, and taking into account other concerns in Kantian ethics (such
as bodily integrity), it may in fact be the case that Kantian ethics would allow
for an account of moral bioenhancement through emotional modulation, and that in
some (rare) cases such an intervention might even be considered to be a duty.
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