Unfit for the future : the need for moral enhancement / Ingmar Persson & Julian Savulescu.

  • Persson, Ingmar.
Date:
2012
  • Books
  • Online

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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.

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)