Aristotle’s Virtue Ethics and the Posthumanist Project of Human Nature Enhancement
Adriana WARMBIER
Zakład Etyki, Instytut Filozofii, Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Grodzka 52, 31-044 Cracow, Poland , PolandAbstract
In this article I explore the possibility of applying Aristotle’s virtue ethics in the moral enhancement debate. I begin by analyzing the premises and aims of transhumanism and then show that biomedical forms of moral enhancement omit important problems such as: the conditions of unified moral agent or the internal complexity of emotions and their relation to reason. In view of this, I argue that Aristotle’s theory of virtue gives more adequate account of moral action. The idea of moral enhancement fails to justify the claims that enhancing the moral dispositions increases the probability of having ‘morally better future motives.’
Keywords:
moral enhancement, human agency, Aristotle’s virtue ethics, transhumanism, human nature, bioethicsWARMBIER, A. (2020). Arystotelesowska etyka cnót i posthumanistyczny projekt doskonalenia natury ludzkiej. Ethos. Quarterly of The John Paul II Institute at the Catholic University of Lublin, 28(3 (111). https://doi.org/10.12887/28-2015-3-111-07
Adriana WARMBIER
Zakład Etyki, Instytut Filozofii, Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Grodzka 52, 31-044 Cracow, Poland
Zakład Etyki, Instytut Filozofii, Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Grodzka 52, 31-044 Cracow, Poland
