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Abstract Author: Robert Sparrow The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 10, Issue 7, July 2010 Since the first sex reassignment operations were performed, individual sex has come to be, to some extent at least, a technological artifact. The existence of sperm sorting technology, and of prenatal determination of fetal sex via ultrasound along with the [...]

For Aristotle, good conduct produces a morally good person. For him, “we become just by performing just acts” (32). Thus, in a sense ‘doing’ precedes ‘being’. But how can we even know what a ‘good’ act look like, if we are not good? In The Nicomachean Ethics, which looks more like a self-help book rather [...]

Biotechnologies already on the horizon will enable us to be smarter, have better memories, be stronger and quicker, have more stamina, live longer, be more resistant to diseases, and enjoy richer emotional lives. To some of us, these prospects are heartening; to others, they are dreadful. In Beyond Humanity a leading philosopher offers a powerful [...]

In To Relieve the Human Condition, Gerald McKenny starts his book with the following sentences: In Book III of the Republic, while discussing the training for the guardians of his ideal city, Plato addresses the role of medicine in their formation. His underlying question is how the pursuit of health can be so managed that medicine [...]

In this essay, Erik Parens wants to “illuminate the structure of the debate” in neuroethics, particularly in the issues related with “the enhancement of human traits and capacities” (181). He rightly thinks that if “we get better at noticing the structure of the debate about enhancement, we might engage in a more fruitful debate” (180). [...]

In his article “Playing God,” in Human Enhancement, C. A. J. Coady looks at “the accusation of playing God” (179) when one is altering creation (nature). This accusation is often made “against secular agents, such as scientists, and very often made by clergy and theologians” (179). But first, Coady points out the positive and negative [...]