Unfit for the future : the need for moral enhancement / Ingmar Persson & Julian Savulescu.
By: Persson, Ingmar.
Contributor(s): Savulescu, Julian.
Series: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012Edition: 1st ed.Description: ix, 143 p. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9780198707929.Subject(s): Moral motivation | Environmental ethics | BioethicsGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | BJ324.M64 P47 2012 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU0000000006481 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-139) and index.
Introduction -- Human nature and common-sense morality -- Liberal democracy -- Catastrophic misuses of science -- Responsibility for omissions -- The tragedy of the commons -- The tragedy of the environment and liberal democracy -- Authoritarianism and democracy -- Liberal democracy and the end of history -- Moral enhancement as a possible way out.
This text argues that the future of our species depends on radical enhancement of the moral aspects of our nature. Population growth and technological advances are threatening to undermine the conditions of worthwhile life on Earth forever. We need to modify to deal with this challenge.--