On Moral Enhancement from a Habermasian Perspective

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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 21 (2):223-234 (2012)
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The human being’s mastery of itself, on which the self is founded, practically always involves the annihilation of the subject in whose service that mastery is maintained, because the substance which is mastered, suppressed, and disintegrated by self-preservation is nothing other than the living entity

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The Morality of Moral Neuroenhancement.Thomas Douglas - forthcoming - In Clausen Jens & Levy Neil (eds.), Handbook of Neuroethics. Springer.
Toward Critical Bioethics.Vilhjálmur Árnason - 2015 - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 24 (2):154-164.

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Knowledge and human interests.Jürgen Habermas - 1971 - London [etc.]: Heinemann Educational.
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