Political Minimalism and Social Debates: The Case of Human-Enhancement Technologies
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Human enhancement Political moralism Political realism Political minimalism
Date
2017-06-20Referencia bibliográfica
Rodríguez-Alcázar, J. Political Minimalism and Social Debates: The Case of Human-Enhancement Technologies. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 14(3): 347-357 (2017). [http://hdl.handle.net/10481/49318]
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Projecto FFI2016-79000-P del Ministerio de Economía, Industria y CompetitividadAbstract
A faulty understanding of the relationship between morality and politics hinders 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.