@article{ART003173026},
author={Junsik Yoon},
title={Moral Enhancement -A Weak Normative Approach and Its Ethical Implications-},
journal={PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE},
issn={1975-1621},
year={2025},
number={47},
pages={1-29}
TY - JOUR
AU - Junsik Yoon
TI - Moral Enhancement -A Weak Normative Approach and Its Ethical Implications-
JO - PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE
PY - 2025
VL - null
IS - 47
PB - Research Institute for East-West Thought
SP - 1
EP - 29
SN - 1975-1621
AB - This article examines the limitations of normative and functional approaches to moral enhancement and proposes a “weak normative approach” as an alternative. It explores the context of moral enhancement's emergence from ethical discussions of human enhancement, and investigates why the concept of “enhancement” broadly includes treatment in this article. The article then compares normative and functional interpretations of what constitutes “moral” and analyzes the limitations of both approaches - the normative approach based on the conventional understanding of “becoming a more moral being,” and the functional approach focusing on partial improvements in specific moral components. Based on this analysis, it presents a “weak normative approach” that preserves normative orientation yet circumvents the plurality problem of moral theories by setting the goal of preventing clearly immoral acts, while encompassing the functional approach essential for technological development. From this perspective, the article concludes that moral enhancement focusing on voluntary participation and improvement of specific moral functional deficits is most promising, while compulsory moral enhancement on a global scale lacks empirical and ethical validity.
KW - human enhancement;moral enhancement;Persson & Savulescu;normative approach;functional approach;weak normative approach
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Junsik Yoon. (2025). Moral Enhancement -A Weak Normative Approach and Its Ethical Implications-. PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE, 47, 1-29.
Junsik Yoon. 2025, "Moral Enhancement -A Weak Normative Approach and Its Ethical Implications-", PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE, no.47, pp.1-29.
Junsik Yoon "Moral Enhancement -A Weak Normative Approach and Its Ethical Implications-" PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE 47 pp.1-29 (2025) : 1.
Junsik Yoon. Moral Enhancement -A Weak Normative Approach and Its Ethical Implications-. 2025; 47 : 1-29.
Junsik Yoon. "Moral Enhancement -A Weak Normative Approach and Its Ethical Implications-" PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE no.47(2025) : 1-29.
Junsik Yoon. Moral Enhancement -A Weak Normative Approach and Its Ethical Implications-. PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE, 47, 1-29.
Junsik Yoon. Moral Enhancement -A Weak Normative Approach and Its Ethical Implications-. PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE. 2025; 47 1-29.
Junsik Yoon. Moral Enhancement -A Weak Normative Approach and Its Ethical Implications-. 2025; 47 : 1-29.
Junsik Yoon. "Moral Enhancement -A Weak Normative Approach and Its Ethical Implications-" PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE no.47(2025) : 1-29.
