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doi: 10.1093/jmp/jhr031. Epub 2011 Sep 8.

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Enhancement technologies and the modern self

Carl Elliott. J Med Philos. 2011 Aug.

Abstract

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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