PHL 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Michael J. Sandel, Human Enhancement, Social Inequality
5 Jan 2021
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Biotechnical enhancement risks turning us into someone else. Natural enhancement: developing natural faculties through own efforts. Biotechnical enhancement: developing or altering faculties through genetic, Biotechnical enhancements is often thought to be objectionable or disturbing. The difference seems to turn on a conception of normalcy. A medical intervention that brings someone who is below the normal threshold to the normal threshold is treatment. A medical intervention that brings someone who is at the normal threshold above the normal threshold is enhancement. Normal could be a social construct pharmacological, cybernetic or surgical means. These standards do not work very well when it comes to human enhancement. It needs a new set of arguments. We typically resolve biomedical issues by appealing to autonomy, justice, beneficence or. There really is something wrong with human enhancement. It destroys our appreciation of the gifted character of human power and achievement. Enhanced individuals have an unfair advantage over those who are not.
