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    • Moral enhancement aims to improve human morality.
    • Two primary approaches exist: direct and indirect moral enhancement.
    • Direct methods impose specific moral content, while indirect methods foster reliable moral reasoning.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To evaluate the ethical implications of direct moral enhancement.
    • To advocate for indirect moral enhancement strategies.
    • To propose a framework for indirect moral enhancement based on Millian principles.

    Main Methods:

    • Philosophical argumentation, drawing on John Stuart Mill's ideas on the value of disagreement.
    • Distinguishing between direct and indirect moral enhancement approaches.
    • Outlining a model for indirect moral enhancement.

    Main Results:

    • Widespread direct moral enhancement poses risks to intellectual diversity and the value of disagreement.
    • Indirect moral enhancement, by remaining neutral on specific moral claims, better preserves open discourse.
    • Indirect methods can foster more robust and general moral improvement.

    Conclusions:

    • Direct moral enhancement strategies face significant ethical challenges due to their potential to stifle valuable disagreement.
    • Indirect moral enhancement presents a more ethically sound and effective approach to improving morality.
    • Focusing on enhancing the process of moral reasoning, rather than dictating moral conclusions, is key to fostering widespread moral progress.