為溫和的道德生物增強保留空間

Preserving Space for Moderate Moral Bioenhancement

Abstract

LANGUAGE NOTE | Document text in Chinese; abstract in English.

This commentary responds to Professor Xu Xiangdong’s article “Neuroessentialism and the Dilemmas of Moral Bioenhancement”. Whilst Professor Xu’s work offers a compelling and profound critique of the fundamental presuppositions of moral bioenhancement (MBE), highlighting the limitations of neuroessentialism and its oversimplification of moral life, this commentary argues that his critique may overemphasize the radicalism of MBE and overlook its potential value in limited contexts. A distinction should be drawn between “radical MBE” and “moderate MBE”, and the potential of the latter should be explored within a framework that considers it supplementary to moral education.