How to be good : the possibility of moral enhancement / John Harris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harris, John, 1945- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Good and evil.

Ethics.

Conduct of life.

Moral motivation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 195 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Possibility of moral enhancement

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover; How to be Good: The Possibility of Moral Enhancement; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Outline of the Book; 1. Introduction; 2. What Itś Like to be Good; 3. Taking the Human out of Human Rights; 4. Moral Enhancement and Freedom; 5. Taking Liberties with Free Fall; 6. The God Machine; 7. ``Ethics is for Bad Guys!;́́ 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; 1: Introduction; 1.1 The Safety of the People; 2: What Itś Like to be Good: Individual Responsibility

2.1 People Matter2.2 The Generic Character of the Good; 2.3 The Emergency Room Test; 2.4 Human Flourishing and Human Rights; 2.5 Justice and Human Rights; 2.6 Can Values be Objective?; 2.7 Our Evolutionary Limitations; 2.8 The Social Contract is Not Just a Theory of Government; 2.9 Anti-Philosophy; 2.10 Why Do We Need to Appeal to Something Independent?; 2.11 What Do We Stand For?; 2.12 One Can Do Good Accidentally but One Cannot be Moral Accidentally; 2.13 Moral Behaviour and Good People; 3: Taking the Human out of Human Rights; 3.1 Humanimals; 3.2 The Mermaid Myth

3.3 How Do We Identify Tissue or Genes as ``Animal ́́or ``Human?́́3.4 Humans are Already Humanimals; 3.5 Brave New Worlds; 3.6 Synthetic Biology; 3.7 Made in Our Image; 3.8 Does Being Human Matter?; 3.9 Enhancements and Justice: Synthetic Sunshine; 3.10 Human Rights; 4: Moral Enhancement and Freedom; 4.1 The Argument; 4.1.1 Moral enhancement; 4.2 The Analysis; 4.2.1 Purity and danger; 4.2.2 First claim; 4.2.3 Claims 2 and 3 need to be considered together; 4.2.4 The village idiot; 4.2.5 Claims 4 and 5 need to be considered together; 4.2.6 Milton revisited; 5: Taking Liberties with Free Fall

5.1 The All-Female World6: The God Machine, the God Delusion, and the Death of Liberty; 6.1 Responsibility, Autonomy, and Moral Decision-Making-A Pertinent Digression; 6.1.1 Experience machines; 6.1.2 Obliterating immoral behaviour: the God Machine; 6.1.3 Context is (almost) all; 6.1.4 The good old days; 6.2 Censorship; 6.2.1 Libertarians and libertines; 7: ``Ethics is for Bad Guys!:́́ Putting the ``Moral ́́into Moral Enhancement; 7.1 The Moral of Moral Enhancement; 7.2 Ethics is for Bad Guys; 7.3 The Strategy of Avoiding Thought; 7.4 The Avoidance of ``Cognitive Mediatioń́

7.5 Socrates ́Conclusion is Also Mine8: Molecules and Morality; 8.1 Is There a Science of Morality?; 8.2 Rationality not Emotionality; 9: Moral Progress and Moral Enhancement; 9.1 Taking Oneś Chances; 9.2 How Much is Enough Moral Enhancement?; 9.3 Unenhanced Dichotomies; 9.4 Moral Reasoning and Moral Judgement; 9.5 Power to the People; 10: Mind Reading and Mind Misreading; 10.1 Introduction; 10.2 Mind Reading; 10.3 Thinking and Feeling in the Cloud; 10.4 One Recent Example; 11: The Safety of the People; 11.1 Introduction; 11.2 The Safety of the People

11.3 State Acceptance of Responsibility for the Safety of the People and the Principle of Equality

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780198822400

0198822405

9780191822001

0191822000

9780191017230

019101723X