Crutchfield Parker
Western Michigan University, Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA.
J Med Philos. 2018 Sep 5;43(5):568-584. doi: 10.1093/jmp/jhy020.
There is recent empirical evidence that personal identity is constituted by one's moral traits. If true, this poses a problem for those who advocate for moral enhancement, or the manipulation of a person's moral traits through pharmaceutical or other biological means. Specifically, if moral enhancement manipulates a person's moral traits, and those moral traits constitute personal identity, then it is possible that moral enhancement could alter a person's identity. I go a step further and argue that under the right conditions, moral enhancement can kill the subject of the enhancement. I then argue that these conditions are not remote.
最近有实证证据表明,个人身份是由一个人的道德特质构成的。如果这是真的,那么这给那些主张道德增强,即通过药物或其他生物手段操纵一个人的道德特质的人带来了一个问题。具体而言,如果道德增强操纵了一个人的道德特质,而那些道德特质构成了个人身份,那么道德增强就有可能改变一个人的身份。我进一步论证,在适当的条件下,道德增强可以杀死增强的对象。然后我认为这些条件并不遥远。