Unfit for the Future: The Need for Moral Enhancement

Unfit for the Future: The Need for Moral Enhancement

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-160

  Persson, Ingmar ^a   Savulescu, Julian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Environmental degradation; Liberal democracy; Moral enhancement; Moral psychology; Scientific technology; Weapons of mass destruction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870324047     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199653645.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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