What is it about?
A faulty understanding of the relationship between morality and politics encumbers many contemporary debates on human enhancement. As a result, some ethical reflections on enhancement undervalue its social dimensions, while some social approaches to the topic lack normative import. In this essay, I use my own conception of the relationship between ethics and politics, which I call " political minimalism, " in order to support and strengthen the existing social perspectives on human-enhancement technologies.
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Why is it important?
Some debates on Human-Enhancement Technologies that are addressed from an ethical perspective should be discussed from a political outlook. When this is done, some important consequences follow.
Perspectives
The field of human-enhancement technologies provides an interesting scenario to test political minimalism, a theory in political philosophy that I develop togethter with Lilian Bermejo-Luque.
Javier Rodríguez-Alcázar
Universidad de Granada
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This page is a summary of: Political Minimalism and Social Debates: The Case of Human-Enhancement Technologies, Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, June 2017, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s11673-017-9790-0.
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