Enhancing Care

Abstract

If moral enhancement is possible, the caring capacity of human beings should be considered one of the first and most important traits for augmentation. To assess the plausibility of enhancing care, I will explore how the concept and its associated human dispositions are socially constructed, and identify some of the critical points and complexities. Scientific advances regarding neuro-enhancing substances that allegedly make humans more caring will be considered and assessed against the main principles that govern the ethics of care approach. I argue that given the relational and contextual nature of care, its enhancement, if targeted at the individual level, can be more disadvantageous than helpful, by overlooking the “webs of care” people are situated in, and the role of social institutions in shaping behaviours, duties, attitudes, and principles.

Desafíos éticos del biomejoramiento moral

“…Tercero: existe un sistema universal de valoración de la conducta de los individuos basada en el control relacional que ejercen la familia, las amistades o la sociedad (Manea, 2018). Este control alerta al individuo de si una determinada decisión le orienta hacia la plenitud del mismo individuo, y también detectaría si una intervención estaría robando la autonomía decisional mediante la programación o manipulación de su identidad.…”