Should ethical “ought not” Limit technological feasibility in human enhancement technologies? Ahlakî “Yapılmamalı”, İnsan Geliştirme Teknolojilerindeki Yapılabilirliği Sınırlandırmalı mı?

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UMUT T. N.

Darulfunun Ilahiyat, cilt.29, sa.2, ss.229-251, 2019 (Scopus) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 29 Sayı: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2019
  • Doi Numarası: 10.26650/di.2018.29.2.0030
  • Dergi Adı: Darulfunun Ilahiyat
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Scopus, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.229-251
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Human enhancement technologies, Technological imperative, The ethics of technologies, The philosophy of technology
  • Ankara Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

©Yazarlar.This study addresses the emergence of an understanding expressed as “can implies ought” in the technical field. This concept is a technological imperative, and the study explores how this understanding is possible from a metaphysical and ethical perspective. The study refers to “human enhancement technologies” as an example of the tendency that arose in the case where technological feasibility and metaphysical and moral conditions make it possible. This tendency solves many problems or deficiencies through technology. The study argues that ethical “ought not” should limit, direct, or prevent technological feasibility in human enhancement technologies that oppose transhumanist perspectives, which limitlessly defend the “can implies ought” in these technologies. The paper attempts to put forward this conviction and its justifications with reference to philosophical debates. In conclusion, the argument is that more fundamental enhancement can be provided by being more ethical with free will, rather than through enhancing human beings materially.