In Akira Akabayashi (ed.), The Future of Bioethics: International Dialogues. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2014)
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Much disease and disability is the result of lifestyle behaviours. For example, the
contribution of imprudence in the form of smoking, poor diet, sedentary lifestyle, and drug and alcohol abuse to ill-health is now well established. More importantly, some of the greatest challenges facing humanity as a whole – climate change, terrorism, global poverty, depletion of resources, abuse of children, overpopulation – are the result of human behaviour. In this chapter, we will explore the possibility of using
advances in the cognitive sciences to develop strategies to intentionally manipulate
human motivation and behaviour. While our arguments apply also to improving
prudential motivation and behaviour in relation to health, we will focus on the more
controversial instance: the deliberate targeted use of biomedicine to improve moral
motivation and behaviour. We do this because the challenge of improving human
morality is arguably the most important issue facing humankind (Persson and
Savulescu, forthcoming). We will ask whether using the knowledge from the
biological and cognitive sciences to influence motivation and behaviour erodes
autonomy and, if so, whether this makes it wrong.
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