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Moral traits may constitute personal identity. If true, moral enhancement could alter or even end a person's identity, posing significant ethical concerns for biological manipulation. These risks are not hypothetical.

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Area of Science:

  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Neuroethics
  • Bioethics

Background:

  • Recent empirical evidence suggests personal identity is fundamentally linked to an individual's moral traits.
  • The concept of moral enhancement involves manipulating these moral traits via pharmaceutical or biological interventions.
  • This raises profound ethical questions regarding the potential impact on personal identity.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore the implications of moral traits constituting personal identity for moral enhancement.
  • To argue that moral enhancement, under specific conditions, could lead to the alteration or destruction of personal identity.
  • To assess the proximity and likelihood of these conditions arising.

Main Methods:

  • Philosophical argumentation
  • Conceptual analysis
  • Ethical reasoning
  • Examination of empirical claims regarding personal identity and moral traits.

Main Results:

  • If personal identity is constituted by moral traits, then altering these traits via moral enhancement can change personal identity.
  • Under certain conditions, moral enhancement could result in the 'death' of the subject's identity.
  • These conditions are argued to be not merely theoretical but potentially realizable.

Conclusions:

  • The empirical link between moral traits and personal identity presents a significant challenge to the ethics of moral enhancement.
  • Moral enhancement technologies carry the risk of fundamentally altering or eliminating personal identity.
  • The ethical permissibility of moral enhancement requires careful consideration of its potential to destroy the self.