Title of article
Should Ethical “ought not” Limit Technological Feasibility in Human Enhancement Technologies?
Author/Authors
umut, tuba nur ankara üniversitesi - ilahiyat fakültesi - felsefe tarihi anabilim dalı, Ankara, turkey
From page
229
To page
251
Abstract
This study addresses the emergence of an understanding expressed as “can implies ought” in the technical field. This concept is a technological imperative, and the study explores how this understanding is possible from a metaphysical and ethical perspective. The study refers to “human enhancement technologies” as an example of the tendency that arose in the case where technological feasibility and metaphysical and moral conditions make it possible. This tendency solves many problems or deficiencies through technology. The study argues that ethical “ought not” should limit, direct, or prevent technological feasibility in human enhancement technologies that oppose transhumanist perspectives, which limitlessly defend the “can implies ought” in these technologies. The paper attempts to put forward this conviction and its justifications with reference to philosophical debates. In conclusion, the argument is that more fundamental enhancement can be provided by being more ethical with free will, rather than through enhancing human beings materially.
Keywords
The philosophy of technology , Human enhancement technologies , The ethics of technologies , Technological imperative
Journal title
darulfunun ilahiyat
Journal title
darulfunun ilahiyat
Record number
2719955
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