A Kantian ethics approach to moral bioenhancement
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A Kantian ethics approach to moral bioenhancement
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 emotio...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Bioethics
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0269-9702
DOI: 10.1111/bioe.12380