RT Article
T1 The evolution of moral progress and biomedical moral enhancement
JF Bioethics
VO 33
IS 7
SP 814
OP 819
A1 Persson, Ingmar 1951-
A1 Savulescu, Julian 1963-
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 2019
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1727504143
AB In The Evolution of Moral Progress Allen Buchanan and Russell Powell advance an evolutionary explanation of moral progress by morality becoming more ‘inclusivist’. We are prepared to accept this explanation as far as it goes, but argue that it fails to explain how morality can become inclusivist in the fuller sense they intend. In fact, it even rules out inclusivism in their intended sense of moral progress, since they believe that human altruism and prosocial attitudes are essentially parochial. We also respond to their charge that the possibility of moral enhancement by biomedical means that we have defended in numerous publications assumes that moral attitudes are biologically hard-wired to an extent that implies that they are resilient to the influence of cognitive or cultural factors. Quite the contrary, we think they are more open to such influence than they seem to do.
K1 evoliberal evolution
K1 moral bioenhancement
K1 moral enhancement
K1 moral inclusivism
K1 Moral Progress
DO 10.1111/bioe.12592