Liberal eugenics?
| Abstract | "There are two broad approaches to human flourishing. Monists think there is one best way for human lives to be, and that judgements about how good a given life is depend on how close it comes to this ideal. Monism will demand that enhancement technologies be used to create humans as close as possible to the ideal state. I described two monistic views in chapter 1. The Nazis would have proposed the list of characteristics for admission to the SS as the universal template for enhancement technologies. Hedonistic utilitarianism is a less objectionable version of monism, according to which the best human life is one that contains as much pleasure and as little suffering as possible - but like Nazism, it leaves no room for meaningful choice about enhancement.". | |||||||||
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