PHIL20401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Fluoxetine, Human Enhancement, Sildenafil
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Thinks that 2 sides are talking past each other bc working in 2 diff ethical frameworks more control. Ones in favor have creative framework- increase autonomy by having. Ones against tech have gratitude framework (like sandel being grateful for mysterious life have and not needing to control it) o o. As the power to transform our native powers increases, both in magnitude and refinement, so does the possibility for self-alienation" for losing, confounding, or abandoning our identity. Elliott invites us to imagine that we"re this man"s psychiatrist. Counter- kramer"s basic argument is that drugs like prozac do not separate us from what is most our own. On the contrary, they give us what is most our own; they free us up so that we can encounter the world as it really is and authentically create ourselves. It is our responsibility to express our gratitude for the mysterious whole, which we have not made.
