A new argument has been made against moral enhancement by authors who are otherwise in favour of human enhancement. Additionally, they share the same evolutionary toolkit for analysing human traits as well as the belief that our current morality is unfit to deal with modern problems, such as climate change and nuclear proliferation. The argument is put forward by Buchanan and Powell and states that other paths to moral progress are enough to deal with these problems. Given the likely costs and risks involved with developing moral enhancement, this argument implies moral enhancement is an unpromising enterprise. After mentioning proposed solutions to such modern problems, I will argue that moral enhancement would help implement any of them. I will then detail Buchanan and Powell's new argument disfavouring moral enhancement and argue that it makes too bold assumptions about the efficacy of traditional moral progress. For instance, it overlooks how that progress was to achieve even in relatively successful cases such as the abolition of slavery. Traditional moral progress is likely to require assistance from non-traditional means in order to face new challenges.

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有人提出了反对道德提升的新论点,否则他们赞成人类的提升。此外,他们共享相同的进化工具包,用于分析人类特征,并认为我们目前的道德不适合处理现代问题,例如气候变化和核扩散。布坎南和鲍威尔提出了这一论点,并指出道德进步的其他途径足以解决这些问题。考虑到发展道德增强可能带来的成本和风险,该论点暗示道德增强是一个毫无希望的企业。在提到针对此类现代问题的拟议解决方案之后,我将认为道德提升将有助于实施其中的任何一个。然后,我将详细介绍布坎南和鲍威尔的新论点,该论点不利于道德提升,并认为它对传统道德进步的功效做出了过于大胆的假设。例如,即使在废除奴隶制等相对成功的情况下,它也忽略了如何取得这一进展。传统的道德进步很可能需要非传统手段的帮助,以便面对新的挑战。

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