scholarly journals Flesh, Foil, and Authenticity: Reflections on Johann AR Roduit’s “Flesh and Foil”

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Gunderson
Keyword(s):  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Human Enhancement

Johann AR Roduit’s poem, “Flesh and Foil,” raises a number of issues regarding enhancement, especially the need for principles to guide the process of human enhancement. The guidance that the poem seeks can be found in a combination of virtue ethics and authenticity.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Susan B. Levin
Keyword(s):  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Human Enhancement ◽  
Human Biology ◽  
Living Well ◽  
Societal Challenges ◽  
Self Transcendence ◽  
The Mind

Optimally, would decisions be reached by reason alone? Would existence be better if we felt only pleasure, having excised the capacity to experience anything deemed unpleasant? Are key societal challenges we face rooted in human biology, to which, therefore, we should look for solutions? Such questions draw our attention to contending values and aspirations in today’s debate over human enhancement. The stakes of how this debate turns out are highest for transhumanism, whose proponents urge humanity’s self-transcendence via science and technology. In this introduction, Susan B. Levin states that Posthuman Bliss? The Failed Promise of Transhumanism will challenge transhumanists’ views of the mind, brain, ethics, liberal democracy, knowledge, and reality in a thoroughgoing and integrated way. Against the backdrop of this critique, the author will defend a perspective on living well that incorporates insights from Aristotle’s virtue ethics but is adapted to the ideas and promise of liberal democracy.

Super Soldiers (Part 2)

2014 ◽  
pp. 139-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Lin ◽  
Max Mehlman ◽  
Keith Abney ◽  
Shannon French ◽  
Shannon Vallor ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Human Enhancement ◽  
International Humanitarian Law ◽  
Humanitarian Law ◽  
Health It ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
Improve Performance ◽  
Working Definition ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Domestic Law

This is the second chapter of two on military human enhancement. In the first chapter, the authors outlined past and present efforts aimed at enhancing the minds and bodies of our warfighters with the broader goal of creating the “super soldiers” of tomorrow, all before exploring a number of distinctions—natural vs. artificial, external vs. internal, enhancement vs. therapy, enhancement vs. disenhancement, and enhancement vs. engineering—that are critical to the definition of military human enhancement and understanding the problems it poses. The chapter then advanced a working definition of enhancement as efforts that aim to “improve performance, appearance, or capability besides what is necessary to achieve, sustain, or restore health.” It then discussed a number of variables that must be taken into consideration when applying this definition in a military context. In this second chapter, drawing on that definition and some of the controversies already mentioned, the authors set out the relevant ethical, legal, and operational challenges posed by military enhancement. They begin by considering some of the implications for international humanitarian law and then shift to US domestic law. Following that, the authors examine military human enhancement from a virtue ethics approach, and finally outline some potential consequences for military operations more generally.

Super Soldiers

2015 ◽  
pp. 1527-1548
Author(s):  
Patrick Lin ◽  
Max Mehlman ◽  
Keith Abney ◽  
Shannon French ◽  
Shannon Vallor ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Human Enhancement ◽  
International Humanitarian Law ◽  
Humanitarian Law ◽  
Health It ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
Improve Performance ◽  
Working Definition ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Domestic Law

This is the second chapter of two on military human enhancement. In the first chapter, the authors outlined past and present efforts aimed at enhancing the minds and bodies of our warfighters with the broader goal of creating the “super soldiers” of tomorrow, all before exploring a number of distinctions—natural vs. artificial, external vs. internal, enhancement vs. therapy, enhancement vs. disenhancement, and enhancement vs. engineering—that are critical to the definition of military human enhancement and understanding the problems it poses. The chapter then advanced a working definition of enhancement as efforts that aim to “improve performance, appearance, or capability besides what is necessary to achieve, sustain, or restore health.” It then discussed a number of variables that must be taken into consideration when applying this definition in a military context. In this second chapter, drawing on that definition and some of the controversies already mentioned, the authors set out the relevant ethical, legal, and operational challenges posed by military enhancement. They begin by considering some of the implications for international humanitarian law and then shift to US domestic law. Following that, the authors examine military human enhancement from a virtue ethics approach, and finally outline some potential consequences for military operations more generally.

Super Soldiers (Part 2)

2019 ◽  
pp. 82-105
Author(s):  
Patrick Lin ◽  
Max Mehlman ◽  
Keith Abney ◽  
Shannon French ◽  
Shannon Vallor ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Human Enhancement ◽  
International Humanitarian Law ◽  
Humanitarian Law ◽  
Health It ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
Improve Performance ◽  
Working Definition ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Domestic Law

This is the second chapter of two on military human enhancement. In the first chapter, the authors outlined past and present efforts aimed at enhancing the minds and bodies of our warfighters with the broader goal of creating the “super soldiers” of tomorrow, all before exploring a number of distinctions—natural vs. artificial, external vs. internal, enhancement vs. therapy, enhancement vs. disenhancement, and enhancement vs. engineering—that are critical to the definition of military human enhancement and understanding the problems it poses. The chapter then advanced a working definition of enhancement as efforts that aim to “improve performance, appearance, or capability besides what is necessary to achieve, sustain, or restore health.” It then discussed a number of variables that must be taken into consideration when applying this definition in a military context. In this second chapter, drawing on that definition and some of the controversies already mentioned, the authors set out the relevant ethical, legal, and operational challenges posed by military enhancement. They begin by considering some of the implications for international humanitarian law and then shift to US domestic law. Following that, the authors examine military human enhancement from a virtue ethics approach, and finally outline some potential consequences for military operations more generally.

Human Enhancement: Arguments from Virtue Ethics

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 355-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan-Hendrik Heinrichs ◽  
Mandy Stake
Keyword(s):  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Human Enhancement
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