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    (1 other version)"Voluntary moral enhancement and the survival-at-any-cost bias".Vojin Rakić - 2014 - Journal of Medical Ethics 40 (4):246-250.
    I discuss the argument of Persson and Savulescu that moral enhancement ought to accompany cognitive enhancement, as well as briefly addressing critiques of this argument, notably by John Harris. I argue that Harris, who believes that cognitive enhancement is largely sufficient for making us behave more morally, might be disposing too easily of the great quandary of our moral existence: the gap between what we do and what we believe is morally right to do. In that regard, Persson and Savulescu's (...)
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    How to Enhance Morality.Vojin Rakić - 2021 - Springer Verlag.
    This book offers an innovative approach to moral enhancement. We, as humans, have a moral duty to be as good as we can be. Hence, moral bio-enhancement, if effective and safe, is our moral duty. However, it has to be voluntary because if it is made compulsory, human freedom would be curtailed. As freedom is an essential component of humanness, compulsory MBE would infringe upon our humanness. An essential question is; what will motivate humans to subject themselves voluntarily to MBE?The (...)
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    The Ultimate Enhancement of Morality.Vojin Rakić - 2021 - Springer Verlag.
    This book deals with good, evil, happiness and morally enhanced post-humans. It offers a succinct historical elaboration of philosophical stances towards morality and happiness, focusing on Kant's ideas in particular. Human augmented ethical maturity in a futuristic version of Kant’s Ethical Commonwealth implies, among else, voluntary moral bio-enhancement ; consequently, more happiness – as morality and happiness are in a circularly supportive relationship; ultimate morality. UM is in its own way a universal morality. In line with the contention that Kant’s (...)
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    Psilocybin: The most effective moral bio‐enhancer?Vojin Rakić - 2023 - Bioethics 37 (7):683-689.
    This paper addresses the possible effects of psychedelic drugs, notably psilocybin, on moral bio-enhancement (MBE). It will be argued that non-psychedelic substances, such as oxytocin, serotonin/serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or vasopressin, have indirect effects on M(B)E, whereas psilocybin has direct effects. Additionally, morality and happiness have been shown to operate in a circularly supportive relationship. It will be argued that psilocybin also has more direct effects on the augmentation of human happiness than non-psychedelic substances. Hence, psilocybin multiplies its effects on morality (...)
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    “You hoped we would sleep walk into accepting the collection of our data”: controversies surrounding the UK care.data scheme and their wider relevance for biomedical research.Sigrid Sterckx, Vojin Rakic, Julian Cockbain & Pascal Borry - 2016 - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 19 (2):177-190.
    An ‘Information Centre’ has recently been established by law which has the power to collect, collate and provide access to the medical information forall patients treated by the National Health Service in England, whether in hospitals or by General Practitioners. This so-called ‘care.data’ scheme has given rise to major and ongoing controversies. We will sketch the background of the scheme and look at the responses it has elicited from citizens and medical professionals. In Autumn 2013, NHS England set up a (...)
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    Moral Bioenhancement and Free Will: Continuing the Debate.Vojin Rakić - 2017 - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 26 (3):384-393.
    :This article continues and expands differences I have with Ingmar Persson and Julian Savulescu concerning issues of moral bioenhancement and free will. They have criticized my conception of voluntary moral bioenhancement, claiming that it ignores the extent to which freedom is a matter of degree. Here, I argue that freedom as a political concept is indeed scalar in nature, but that freedom of the will is to be understood as a threshold concept and therefore not as subject to degree. Consequently, (...)
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    Compulsory administration of oxytocin does not result in genuine moral enhancement.Vojin Rakić - 2017 - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 20 (3):291-297.
    The question will be raised whether oxytocin can serve as an effective moral enhancer. Different types of moral enhancement will be addressed, one of them being compulsory moral enhancement. It will be argued that oxytocin cannot serve as an effective moral enhancer if its use is being made compulsory. Hence, compulsory administration of oxytocin does not result in genuine moral enhancement. In order to demonstrate this, a stipulation of the main potentially beneficial outcomes of using oxytocin as a moral enhancer (...)
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    Incentivized goodness.Vojin Rakić - 2018 - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 21 (3):303-309.
    It will be argued that humans have a rational self-interest in voluntarily opting to subject themselves to moral bioenhancement. This interest is based on the fact that goodness appears to be conducive to happiness. Those who understand that will be more inclined to opt for safe and effective moral bioenhancement technologies that have the potential to augment our motivation to become better. The more people decide to follow this path, the likelier it is that states will adopt suitable policies that (...)
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    We Must Create Beings with Moral Standing Superior to Our Own.Vojin Rakić - 2015 - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 24 (1):58-65.
    :Several lines of reasoning have been employed to both approve and disapprove two of Nicholas Agar’s positions: his argument that the creation of postpersons is imaginable and possible and his inductive argument disfavoring the creation of postpersons. This article discusses a number of these lines of reasoning, arguing that1)The creation of postpersons is imaginable if they are envisaged as morally enhanced beings.2)The creation of postpersons is justified, subject to the condition that we create morally enhanced postpersons.The reason given for the (...)
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    Ethical sharing of health data in online platforms- which values should be considered?Brígida Riso, Aaro Tupasela, Danya F. Vears, Heike Felzmann, Julian Cockbain, Michele Loi, Nana C. H. Kongsholm, Silvia Zullo & Vojin Rakic - 2017 - Life Sciences, Society and Policy 13 (1):1-27.
    Intensified and extensive data production and data storage are characteristics of contemporary western societies. Health data sharing is increasing with the growth of Information and Communication Technology platforms devoted to the collection of personal health and genomic data. However, the sensitive and personal nature of health data poses ethical challenges when data is disclosed and shared even if for scientific research purposes. With this in mind, the Science and Values Working Group of the COST Action CHIP ME ‘Citizen's Health through (...)
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    From cognitive to moral enhancement: A possible reconciliation of religious outlooks and the biotechnological creation of a better human.Vojin Rakic - 2012 - Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies 11 (31):113-128.
    Religious outlooks on the use of new bio-technologies for the purpose of cognitive enhancement of humans are generally not favorably disposed to interventions in what is regarded as ordained by God or shaped by nature. I will present a number of perspectives that are derived from these outlooks and contrast them to the liberal standpoint. Subsequently, I will discuss two views that are compatible with religious outlooks, but that do not exclude cognitive enhancement altogether. They only pose significant moral limitations (...)
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    Genome Editing for Involuntary Moral Enhancement.Vojin Rakić - 2019 - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 28 (1):46-54.
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    Voluntary Moral Bioenhancement Is a Solution to Sparrow's Concerns.Vojin Rakić - 2014 - American Journal of Bioethics 14 (4):37-38.
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    Different games of moral bioenhancement.Vojin Rakić & Harris Wiseman - 2017 - Bioethics 32 (2):103-110.
    Rakić has serious misgivings about Wiseman's inability to frame ethical issues in the context of transcending existing realities with the aim of achieving what we believe is morally right. This inability to think beyond the present is misguided in ethics. He also criticizes Wiseman for making the unimaginative and unsubstantiated assumption that moral bioenhancement technologies have reached their zenith already. Rakić argues that MBE will become more effective in the time to come, that it ought to be optional for every (...)
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    The Issues of Freedom and Happiness in Moral Bioenhancement: Continuing the Debate With a Reply to Harris Wiseman.Vojin Rakić - 2017 - Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 14 (4):469-474.
    During the previous years, Harris Wiseman has devoted substantial attention to my stance on voluntary moral bioenhancement. He argued that he has been influenced by that position, but nonetheless criticized it. I haven’t replied to his criticisms yet and wish to do so now. One of the reasons is to avoid my position being misrepresented. By replying to Wiseman’s criticisms, I also wish to clarify those issues in my standpoint that might have given rise to some of the misinterpretations. With (...)
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  16. Confronting Existential Risks With Voluntary Moral Bioenhancement.Vojin Rakić & Milan M. Ćirković - 2016 - Journal of Evolution and Technology 26 (2):48-59.
    We outline an argument favoring voluntary moral bioenhancement as a response to existential risks humanity exposes itself to. We consider this type of enhancement a solution to the antithesis between the extinction of humanity and the imperative of humanity to survive at any cost. By opting for voluntary moral bioenhancement; we refrain from advocating illiberal or even totalitarian strategies that would allegedly help humanity preserve itself. We argue that such strategies; by encroaching upon the freedom of individuals; already inflict a (...)
     
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    We Can Make Room for SSRIs.Vojin Rakić - 2014 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 5 (3):34-35.
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    Bioethics in Serbia: Institutions in Need of Philosophical Debate.Vojin Rakić & Petar Bojanić - 2011 - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 20 (3):440-448.
    This paper is structured in three sections. The first discusses the institutional framework pertaining to bioethics in Serbia. The functioning of this framework is critically assessed and a number of recommendations for its improvement presented. It is also emphasized that philosophers are underrepresented in public debate on bioethics in Serbia. Second, this underrepresentation will be related to two issues that figure prominently in Serbian society but are not accompanied by corresponding bioethical discourses: the first is abortion and the second is (...)
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  19. (2015). "We Must Create Beings with Moral standing Superior to Our Own". Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics 24(1):58-65.Vojin Rakic - unknown2015 - Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics 24 (1).
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    Guest Editorial: How Moral is Moral Enhancement?Vojin Rakić & James Hughes - 2015 - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 24 (1):3-6.
    Moral bioenhancement is a topic that will only increase in controversy as neuroscience advances.
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  21. Theories of Nation Formation and Case Selection: The Meaning of an Alternative Model.Vojin Rakic - 1998 - Nationalities Papers 26 (4):599-614.
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    (1 other version)Philosophy for Public Good.Vojin Rakić - 2013 - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 22 (3):271-276.
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    “Involuntary (Moral) Bioenhancement” Can Add Value to the Debate on Human Germline Genome Editing.Vojin Rakić - 2022 - American Journal of Bioethics 22 (9):54-56.
    Robert Sparrow (2022) concludes his article “Human Germline Genome Editing: On the Nature of Our Reasons to Genome Edit” with the following sentence: “The issues around genome-editing are complex e...
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    Introduction: The Ethical Frontiers of Gene Editing.Arthur Caplan & Vojin Rakić - 2019 - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 28 (1):4-7.
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    European Electronic Personal Health Records initiatives and vulnerable migrants: A need for greater ethical, legal and social safeguards.Oliver Feeney, Gabriele Werner‐Felmayer, Helena Siipi, Markus Frischhut, Silvia Zullo, Ursela Barteczko, Lars Øystein Ursin, Shai Linn, Heike Felzmann, Dušanka Krajnović, John Saunders & Vojin Rakić - 2020 - Developing World Bioethics 20 (1):27-37.
    The effective collection and management of personal data of rapidly migrating populations is important for ensuring adequate healthcare and monitoring of a displaced peoples’ health status. With developments in ICT data sharing capabilities, electronic personal health records (ePHRs) are increasingly replacing less transportable paper records. ePHRs offer further advantages of improving accuracy and completeness of information and seem tailored for rapidly displaced and mobile populations. Various emerging initiatives in Europe are seeking to develop migrant‐centric ePHR responses. This paper highlights their (...)
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  26. (1 other version)Aktuelna debata:(K+ M) P i konačna šteta.Vojin Rakić - 2012 - Filozofija I Društvo 23 (4):87-96.
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    A future political framework for moral enhancement.Vojin Rakić & Milan Ćirković - 2021 - Journal of Ethics and Emerging Technologies 30 (1):1-10.
    Various kinds of human bioenhancement represent a major topic of contention in both bioethics and futures studies. Moral enhancement is one of them. It will be argued that voluntary moral bio-enhancement should be based on an opt out moral enhancement scheme. Such a scheme would avoid the challenges of a voluntary moral enhancement opt in scheme. The former has a proper place in a minimal state. It will be explained why such a state can be called Utopia. The concept of (...)
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  28. and Habermas on International Relations: Political Morality as Moral Politics.Vojin Rakic - 2009 - Filozofski Godišnjak 22:21-35.
     
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  29. Are Justice and Peace Coming Nearer?: A Contemporary Account of Kant’s Views on the “Ethical Commonwealth.Vojin Rakic - 2009 - Glasnik Za Društvene Nauke 1 (1):86-92.
  30. Bioetika.Vojin Rakic, Ivan Mladenović & Rada Drezgić - 2012 - Službeni glasnik i Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju.
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  31. (1 other version)Budućnost morala i međunarodna pravda.Vojin Rakić - 2010 - Filozofija I Društvo 21 (1):19-30.
     
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  32. Cosmopolitanism Beyond Toward Perpetual Peace.Vojin Rakic - 2011 - Filozofski Godišnjak 24:143-172.
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    Commentary: Cognitive Enhancement: Are the Claims of Critics “Good Enough”?Vojin Rakić - 2017 - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 26 (4):693-698.
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  34. Cognitive Enhancement: Ethical and Political Aspects.Vojin Rakic - 2012 - Bioethics-Medicine-Politics:121-126.
     
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  35. Converge or not Converge: The European Union and Higher Education Policies in the Netherlands, Belgium/Flanders and Germany.Vojin Rakic - 2001 - Higher Education Policy 14 (3):225-240.
     
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    Enhancing Fabiano’s Virtue Theory for Moral Enhancement.Vojin Rakić - 2021 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 12 (2-3):108-110.
  37. Europe: From Warfare to Cosmopolitan Justice.Vojin Rakic - 2011 - Europe in the Emerging World Order: Searching for a New Paradigm:63-78.
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    Enhancements: How and Why to Become Better, How and Why to Become Good.Vojin Rakić - 2017 - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 26 (3):358-363.
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  39. Evropska integracija i visoko obrazovanje: kretanja prema konvergenciji i njen uticaj na Srbiju.Vojin Rakic - 2002 - Javna Uprava:63-80.
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  40. Etički i politički aspekti kognitivnog poboljšanja čoveka.Vojin Rakic - 2010 - Treći Program 173 (3):237-244.
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  41. Funkcionalna analiza.Vojin Rakic - 2002 - UNDP.
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  42. From Biology to Ethics: the Future of Evolution as Humanity’s Path to Juctice.Vojin Rakic - 2009 - Theoria: Beograd 52 (3):37-47.
     
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  43. Functional Review of the Serbian Ministry of Health.Vojin Rakic - 2003 - UNDP.
     
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  44. Hegemony, Culture and Human Resources in Politics: the Democratic Transition in Serbia.Vojin Rakic - 2003 - UNDP and the Faculty of Organizational Sciences.
     
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  45. Human Resources Management in the Serbian Public Administration System.Vojin Rakic - 2004 - NISPACEE News 11 (2):9-10.
     
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    Is armageddon the alternative to moral enhancement?Vojin Rakić - 2012 - Theoria: Beograd 55 (3):73-80.
  47. Introduction: Disputing Weberian Semantics.Vojin Rakic, Nicholas Onuf & Nicolas Hebert Lemay - 2013 - In Vojin Rakic, Nicholas Onuf & Nicolas Hebert Lemay (eds.), Semantics of Statebulding: Language, Meanings and Sovereignty. Routledge.
     
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  48. (1 other version)Integrisanje kognitivnog i moralnog poboljšanja.Vojin Rakić - 2012 - Filozofija I Društvo 23 (2):91-103.
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  49. Izveštaj o tranziciji – Srbija i Crna Gora.Vojin Rakic - 2004 - G-17.
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  50. Kant and Cosmopolitanism in International relations.Vojin Rakic - 2009 - Human Security 17 (1):19-31.
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