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Enhancement and civic virtue
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Opponents of biomedical enhancement frequently adopt what Allen Buchanan has called the Personal Goods Assumption. On this assumption, the benefits of biomedical enhancement will accrue primarily to those individuals who undergo enhancements, not to wider society. Buchanan has argued that biomedical enhancements might in fact have substantial social benefits by increasing productivity. We outline another way in which enhancements might benefit wider society: by augmenting civic virtue and thu...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Accepted manuscript, pdf, 107.0KB)
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- 10.5840/soctheorpract201440330
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+ Wellcome Trust
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Funding agency for:
Kahane, G
Grant:
100705/Z/12/Z, WT087208MF
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Philosophy Documentation Center Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Social Theory and Practice Journal website
- Volume:
- 40
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 499–527
- Publication date:
- 2014-07-01
- DOI:
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2154-123X
- ISSN:
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0037-802X
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- Language:
- English
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- Local pid:
- ora:9784
- Deposit date:
- 2015-01-22
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- Social Theory and Practice
- Copyright date:
- 2014
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- © Copyright 2014 by Social Theory and Practice. This article has been made available with publisher's permission.
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