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Enhancement technologies and the modern self.
Center for Bioethics, University of Minnesota, 410 Church Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA. ellio023@umn.edu
The Journal of medicine and philosophy 2011 AugSizes of these terms reflect their relevance to your search.
Many people feel uneasy about enhancement technologies, yet have a hard time explaining why. This unease is often less with the technologies themselves than about the desires and aspirations that they express. I suggest here that we can diagnose the source of that unease by looking at three themes that emerge in Taylor's writings about the making of the modern self: the importance of social recognition, the ethics of authenticity, and the rise of instrumental reason.
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Carl Elliott. Enhancement technologies and the modern self. The Journal of medicine and philosophy. 2011 Aug;36(4):364-74
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