Publication: Mejora cognitiva: un debate ético sobre los animales no humanos
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Campos Serena, Olga
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Universidad de Murcia. Servicio de Publicaciones
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http://dx.doi.org/10.6018/daimon/225931
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Abstract
Es responsabilidad de la ética aplicada hacerse cargo de las grandes dificultades teórico-prácticas generadas con el incipiente desarrollo de
las nuevas tecnologías de biomejora. Dificultades que van más allá de las preferencias individuales, viéndose involucradas cuestiones en torno a nuestra comprensión de la justicia distributiva. La identificación de dos hechos importantes nos da la clave para orientar el debate. Por un lado,
están las situaciones de partida tan arbitrarias que proporciona la lotería natual con relación a las oportunidades de bienestar individual. Por otro, encontramos la posibilidad de realizar una mejora cognitiva, de aquellos más desafortunados en su configuración genética, que incidirá en la amplificación de tales oportunidades. La pretensión de este artículo es defender la legitimidad de objetar una supuesta prescripción de este tipo de mejoras en el caso de algunos animales no humanos, y que ello es compatible con un paradigma ético no antropocéntrico donde la racionalidad deja de ser el criterio moralmente relevante.
Perhaps the most imposing currentresponsibility of applied ethics is facing the theoretical-practical difficulties posed by the incipient development of new bioenhancement technologies. These difficulties must be placed beyond individual preferences, as key issues are involved regarding our understanding of distributive justice. The awareness of two important facts enables us to orient the debate. First, there are the different and arbitrary starting situations provided by the natural lottery determine the array of opportunities for wellbeing of each individual. Second, we find with the possibility of that cognitive enhancement, that emerging technologies offer to the individuals who are less fortunate in their genetic makeup, could directly broaden such opportunities. The aim of this article is to defend the legitimacy of questioning a alleged prescription of this type of enhancements in the case of some non-human animals, and that this is consistent with a non-anthropocentric ethical paradigm where rationality is no longer the morally relevant criterion.
Perhaps the most imposing currentresponsibility of applied ethics is facing the theoretical-practical difficulties posed by the incipient development of new bioenhancement technologies. These difficulties must be placed beyond individual preferences, as key issues are involved regarding our understanding of distributive justice. The awareness of two important facts enables us to orient the debate. First, there are the different and arbitrary starting situations provided by the natural lottery determine the array of opportunities for wellbeing of each individual. Second, we find with the possibility of that cognitive enhancement, that emerging technologies offer to the individuals who are less fortunate in their genetic makeup, could directly broaden such opportunities. The aim of this article is to defend the legitimacy of questioning a alleged prescription of this type of enhancements in the case of some non-human animals, and that this is consistent with a non-anthropocentric ethical paradigm where rationality is no longer the morally relevant criterion.
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Daimon. Revista Internacional de Filosofía, nº 70, 2017, 97-114
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