Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics
- Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics / Volume 21 / Issue 02 / April 2012, pp 223-234
- Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0963180111000727 (About DOI), Published online: 29 February 2012
Special Section: Kant, Habermas, and Bioethics
On Moral Enhancement from a Habermasian Perspective
HANS-JOERG EHNI and DIANA AURENQUE
The human being’s mastery of itself, on which the self is founded, practically always involves the annihilation of the subject in whose service that mastery is maintained, because the substance which is mastered, suppressed, and disintegrated by self-preservation is nothing other than the living entity.
Hans-Joerg Ehni, Ph.D., is a Researcher and Lecturer in the Department of Medical Ethics at the University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany.
Diana Aurenque, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in the Institute for Ethics and History of Medicine at the University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany.
