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SUMMARY:Egalitarianism and moral bioenhancement
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LOCATION:Linkway Meeting Room on Level 4 of the John Medley Building\, University of Melbourne. \, Melbourne\, Australia
DESCRIPTION:<p><u>Abstract</u>:&nbsp\;A number of philosophers working in applied ethics and bioethics are now earnestly debating the &nbsp\;ethics of what they term &ldquo\;moral bioenhancement&rdquo\;\, by which they mean the deliberate modification&nbsp\;of individuals&rsquo\; behaviour and dispositions in order to make them &ldquo\;more moral&rdquo\;. I will suggest that &nbsp\;anyone who is committed to an egalitarian politics should be extremely suspicious of this project. &nbsp\;The prospect of being able to reliably identify some people as\, by biological constitution\, significantly&nbsp\;and consistently more moral than others would seem to pose a profound challenge to egalitarian&nbsp\;social and political ideals. The morally enhanced are\, ex hypothesi\, better people\; while they might&nbsp\;not thereby gain improved moral status\, they would appear to have a prima facie claim to be&nbsp\;over-represented in political decision making. Even if moral bioenhancement should prove to be&nbsp\;impossible\, the debate about its ethics risks reinvigorating dangerous ideas about the extent of&nbsp\;natural inequality in the possession of the moral faculties.</p>
ORGANIZER;CN=Francesca Minerva:
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