Health Sciences 2610F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Caffeine, Strychnine, Open Problem
20 Feb 2018
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Therapy vs. enhancement: we have always had enhancement. Making them more than they were in the moment: a brief history of enhancement of human capacities. Intrinsic/extrinsic goods: the future directions: affective enhancement. Sandel: professor at harvard who teaches justice, therapy has an ethical basis in the relationship between health and human flourishing . Therapy = having a person restored to its normal functioning: species typical functioning = normality. You are considered ill when you fall below this, meaning that you cannot function normally. Wanting to go back into the range of normal: the purpose of therapy is to restore you to normality (or as close as possible) Enhancement historically : happens when you want to takes the species normal functioning, and to enhance and to go beyond that, has always been there, performance-enhancing drug use, predates history. Seen in all cultures: seems to serve the same purpose. Everything is trying to do better to a higher level.
