Allen Buchanan, Our Moral Fate (2020)

Guido Calderini

doi:10.7202/1098565ar

Allen Buchanan, Our Moral Fate (2020)

Guido Calderini Department of Philosophy, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada https://orcid.org/0009-0009-4187-7312

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7202/1098565ar

Keywords: Moral Enhancement, Ideology, Institutional Design, Evolutionary Psychology, Enhancement Debate

Language(s): English

Abstract

In debates surrounding the biomedical enhancement of human morality, it is widely believed that morality was evolutionarily shaped to be rigidly tribal. Allen Buchanan challenges this assumption by making the case that a plastic morality that responds to our environment would be evolutionarily favored, and thus the best way to shape human morality going forward would not be through biomedical interventions, but by designing better institutions.

Published

2023-04-06

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Calderini G. Allen Buchanan, Our Moral Fate (2020). Can. J. Bioeth. 2023;6:100-1. https://doi.org/10.7202/1098565ar.

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Issue

Vol. 6 No. 1 (2023): Open Issue

Section

Book Reviews

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