RHETOR 115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Liberal Eugenics, Kantian Ethics, Human Enhancement

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Framing the debate: existing problems that we should attend to (poverty, health care crisis) Need a discussion of sociomoral restrictions - what are the morals that are significant. As technologies change, what we think about as ethical or moral would change along with it. Kant? (1) not using people as a means to an end, but a means themselves (2) can society be built up on the principle that you abide by in behaving yourself in life. Kantian ethics (where is the line between people and materials that mimic humanistic tendencies) Question of treatment of human different in any polis. H argues it will not be held apart. Positive eugenics: cultivate a positive/advantageous trait in a person knowingly before the fact. Nature of disability in relation to human enhancement. 1 viewpoint: biotechnologies can enhance and extend human ability. Or what is the idea of the norm.

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