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On Moral Enhancement from a Habermasian Perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 February 2012

HANS-JOERG EHNI  and
DIANA AURENQUE
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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.

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Special Section: Kant, Habermas, and Bioethics
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , April 2012 , pp. 223 - 234
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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