Moral Enhancement Should Target Self-Interest and Cognitive Capacity
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Moral Enhancement Should Target Self-Interest and Cognitive Capacity
Current suggestions for capacities that should be targeted for moral enhancement has centered on traits like empathy, fairness or aggression. The literature, however, lacks a proper model for understanding the interplay and complexity of moral capacities, which limits the practicability of proposed interventions. In this paper, I integrate some existing knowledge on the nature of human moral be...
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عنوان ژورنال: Neuroethics
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1874-5490,1874-5504
DOI: 10.1007/s12152-017-9331-x