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  • Bioethics
  • Moral Philosophy
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Traditional moral enhancement methods include legislation, social exemplars, religious teachings, and upbringing.
  • Moral bioenhancement is proposed as a complementary approach for species survival.
  • A virtue-theoretic framework is used to analyze moral bioenhancement.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore the necessity and feasibility of moral bioenhancement.
  • To examine if moral bioenhancement can cultivate the intellectual virtue of prudence.
  • To assess the role of bioenhancement in aligning will with rational desires.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis grounded in virtue theory.
  • Focus on the intellectual virtue of prudence.
  • Evaluation of proposed moral bioenhancement methods.

Main Results:

  • Certain bioenhancement methods may augment prudential reasoning.
  • Bioenhancement can assist in aligning will with higher-order rational desires.
  • Effectiveness is contingent on pre-existing higher-order desires.

Conclusions:

  • Moral bioenhancement offers potential benefits for moral reasoning and species survival.
  • Prudence can potentially be enhanced through bio-technological means.
  • Bioenhancement is a tool that requires independent moral framework formulation.