The myth of the moral brain : the limits of moral enhancement / Harris Wiseman.

"Throughout history, humanity has been seen as being in need of improvement, most pressingly in need of moral improvement. Today, in what has been called the beginnings of "the golden age of neuroscience," laboratory findings claim to offer insights into how the brain "does"...

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Tác giả chính: Wiseman, Harris (Tác giả)
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Ngôn ngữ:English
Được phát hành: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, [2016]
Loạt:Basic bioethics.
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505 0 |a Introduction to moral enhancement -- The new problem of evil -- Philosophy -- The philosophy of moral enhancement, why morally enhance? -- Conceptual issues and practical realities in moral enhancement -- Science -- The biochemical bases for moral enhancement, how the brain does morality -- Not fit for purpose, methodological and conceptual problems -- Faith -- Moral education and faith -- Moral enhancement in a world of faith -- Praxis -- Enhancement or remediation -- Treating addiction, moral enhancement in practice -- The limits and potential of moral bioenhancement -- The goodness of badness. 
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