Unfit for the future : the need for moral enhancement / Ingmar Persson & Julian Savulescu.
- Persson, Ingmar.
- Date:
- 2012
- Books
- Online
About this work
Also known as
Unfit for the future (Online)
Unfit for the Future: The Need for Moral Enhancement
Description
This text argues that the future of our species depends on radical enhancement of the moral aspects of our nature. Population growth and technological advances are threatening to undermine the conditions of worthwhile life on Earth forever. We need to modify to deal with this challenge.-- Source other than Library of Congress.
Publication/Creation
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Contributors
Edition
1st ed.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-139) and index.
Contents
Introduction -- Human nature and common-sense morality -- Liberal democracy -- Catastrophic misuses of science -- Responsibility for omissions -- The tragedy of the commons -- The tragedy of the environment and liberal democracy -- Authoritarianism and democracy -- Liberal democracy and the end of history -- Moral enhancement as a possible way out.
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Holdings
- 1 Jan. 2012 - 31 Dec. 2012
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ISBN
- 9780191632877 (online)
- 9780191742033 (online)
- 9781280876356 (online)