论佩尔松和萨夫列斯库的生物医学道德增强观

On Persson & Savulescu's View of Biomedical Moral Enhancement

人类面临着生化武器、核武器等大规模杀伤性武器,以及人为的气候变化和环境恶化、全球经济不平等等重大威胁。佩尔松和萨夫列斯库称之为"道德大问题",并提出了生物医学道德增强(BME)这一应对之策。在阐明BME提出的背景和原因的基础上,论述了其基本内容和可能性,并揭示了其无碍于自由、较弱意义上改变个人同一性、兼容性、谨慎性和乌托邦性等特征。

It brings existential threats of weapons of mass destruction like biological or nuclear weapons, and of anthropogenic climate change and environmental degradation as well as global economic inequality today. To cope with these ＂moral mega - problems＂, Pemson ＆ Savulescu argued for biomedical moral enhancement （BME）. Based on expounding the background and reason of BME, the main content and possibility are discussed, and its characteristics are revealed： not curtailing freedom, altering identity in the weaker sense, compatibility, and cautiousness and utopic.