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February 22, 2026Journal of Medical Ethics0 citations

Moral enhancement increases freedom

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GMGennady McCracken

Key Points

  • This analysis examines whether biomedical moral enhancement compromises freedom and seeks to establish its potential benefits.
  • Engaged with arguments against biomedical moral enhancement from notable philosophers.
  • Assessed freedom objections within the framework of perfectionist freedom.
  • Compared biomedical moral enhancement with other forms of moral enhancement.
  • Argued that biomedical moral enhancement does not negatively impact freedom more than other methods.
  • Established that moral enhancement can be conducive to increasing freedom.

Abstract

Ingmar Persson and Julian Savulescu have argued that biomedical moral enhancement is a moral imperative. Others have argued that biomedical moral enhancement poses an unacceptable cost to freedom. I respond to freedom objections to biomedical moral enhancement by John Harris, Jonathan Pugh, Christoph Bublitz and Robert Sparrow both on their own terms and in terms of perfectionist freedom. At the very least, I seek to prove that biomedical moral enhancement is no more harmful to freedom than other forms of moral enhancement. At most, I seek to prove that moral enhancement increases freedom.

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Gennady McCracken (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/699a9e00482488d673cd4645https://doi.org/10.1136/jme-2025-111519
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