Human enhancement technologies and the arguments for cosmopolitanism

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Javier Rodríguez-Alcázar, Lilian Bermejo-Luque
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Abstract

According to political minimalism, a debate is considered political when it revolves around the question “What shall we do?” This account suggests that certain issues related to human enhancement technologies (HETs), which have traditionally been addressed in the realm of applied ethics, could be better approached from a political standpoint. However, this raises the question of who constitutes the “we” – the communities that face the political challenges posed by HETs. We argue that there is a global human community that directly faces at least some of these challenges, and this fact underscores the relevance of a cosmopolitan perspective. While some authors have already advocated for a cosmopolitan approach in addressing issues such as poverty or climate change, they often do so from a moral outlook, without adequately distinguishing between ethics and politics. In contrast, we assert that HETs present compelling arguments in favour of cosmopolitanism as a political stance. In support of this claim, we consider two cases: the pills that would allow people to eat at will without gaining weight, and the choice between different types of cognitive enhancers.
人类增强技术和世界主义的争论
根据政治极简主义,当一场辩论围绕着“我们该做什么?”这个问题展开时,就被认为是政治性的。这种说法表明,与人类增强技术(HETs)有关的某些问题,传统上是在应用伦理学领域解决的,可以从政治角度更好地解决这些问题。然而,这就提出了一个问题,即谁构成了“我们”——即那些面临HETs带来的政治挑战的社区。我们认为,有一个全球性的人类社区直接面临着至少其中的一些挑战,这一事实强调了世界主义观点的相关性。虽然一些作者已经提倡在解决贫困或气候变化等问题时采用世界主义的方法,但他们往往是从道德观出发,没有充分区分伦理和政治。相反,我们断言,HETs提出了令人信服的论据,支持世界主义作为一种政治立场。为了支持这一说法,我们考虑了两种情况:一种是允许人们随意吃东西而不增加体重的药丸,另一种是不同类型的认知增强剂之间的选择。
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