'Ethics is for bad guys!' putting the 'moral' into moral enhancement

Bioethics

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 169-173

  Harris, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMOTION; ETHICS; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MORALITY;

BIOMEDICAL ENHANCEMENT; EMOTIONS; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; MORALS;

EID: 84873999095     PISSN: 02699702     EISSN: 14678519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8519.2011.01946.x     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. In the past I have considered morality to be the science of the good and ethics, the study of that science, but increasingly the formulation I use here seems to capture what makes ethics worth doing.
2. T. Douglas. Moral Enhancement via Direct Emotion Modulation: A Reply to John Harris. Bioethics 2011; doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8519.2011. 01919.x.
3. John Harris. Moral Enhancement and Freedom. Bioethics published online December 2010 doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8519.2010.01854.x or 2011; 25(2): 102-111.
4. http://www.bloodaxebooks.com/poemsample15.asp [Accessed 2nd June 2011].
5. J. Harris & S. Chan. Moral Behaviour is Not What it Seems. PNAS 2010 early edn www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1015001107.
6. S. Chan & J. Harris. Moral Enhancement and Prosocial Behaviour. J Med Ethics 2011; 37: 130-131.
7. H. Greely et al. Towards Responsible Use of Cognitive Enhancing Drugs by the Healthy. Nature 2008; 456: 18-25.
8. M.J. Crockett et al. Serotonin Selectively Influences Moral Judgment and Behavior through Effects on Harm Aversion. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2010; 107: 17433-17438.
9. Plato. The Apology. Benjamin Jowett, trans. http://classics.mit.edu//Plato/apology.html. Available at [Accessed 2nd June 2011]. I used the internet version since I wrote this in Italy, far from the four volumes of my own much loved Jowett translation of Plato (but a little nearer geographically and spiritually to the scene of the trial of Socrates).