Commentary: Freedom Means Self-Awareness and Self-Control: Bioenhancement Can Help

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 26 (3):394-397 (2017)
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The manipulation of sentiments and capacities for self-control can be combined in a program of posthuman character development that enhances flourishing and the subjective sense of free will. Indeed the faculties of self-awareness, deliberation, and self-control are the only referents this illusory concept of free will can be based on.

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James J. Hughes
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