The use of performance-enhancing technologies in sports through Nicolas Agar’s “truly human enhancement” approach (original) (raw)

Abstract

In this paper, I will present Nicholas Agar’s “truly human enhancement” approach, which is aimed at critiquing pro-enhancement approaches that advocate for the utilization of technology to better the human condition. After identifying some limitations of Agar’s approach, I will apply it to sport in order to explore what kinds of enhancing-performance technologies should be allowed in it. In doing so, I will focus on two criteria from Agar’s account that could be deployed to determine when it would be morally condemnable to utilize performance-enhancing technologies in sport, namely intrinsic goods and veridical engagement. Keywords Human enhancementSportsHuman capacitiesNormalcyTechnology

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