Chapter 12 Partiality for Humanity and Enhancement

We consider a strategy for justifying bio-conservative opposition to enhancement according to which we should resist radical departures from human nature, not because human nature possesses any intrinsic value, but because it is our nature. The idea is that we can be partial to humanity in the same...

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Main Author: Pugh, Jonathan (auth)
Other Authors: Kahane, Guy (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2016
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