The Myth of the Moral Brain: The Limits of Moral Enhancement
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Those statements are quite brave: they also imply that there has not been our own guilt in producing a human being with such a scarse empathy and so sharpened an egoistic drive. Because, if it would be our fault, it would be quite unusual to be solved by ourselves. Obviously, to think of any kind and procedure of moral „enhancement,“ means to have very clear ideas on the absolute superiority of humans (both human knowledge and human logic) over Nature.
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