ISBN : 9780198822400
Knowing how to be good is immensely important. The same goes for knowing how to make others be good-otherwise known as 'moral enhancement'. John Harris explores the many varied approaches to moral enhancement, from setting a good example to imbibing mood-altering substances, and asks whether and to what extent moral enhancement is possible.
1 Introduction
2 What it's Like to be Good: Individual Responsibility
3 Taking the Human out of Human Rights
4 Moral Enhancement and Freedom
5 Taking Liberties with Free Fall
6 The God Machine, the God Delusion, and the Death of Liberty
7 'Ethics is for Bad Guys': Putting the 'Moral' into Moral Enhancement
8 Molecules and Morality
9 Moral Progress and Moral Enhancement
10 Mind Reading and Mind Misreading
11 The Safety of the People
12 Persons or Machines
Acknowledgements
Index