title: Enhancement technologies and the modern self.
abstract: Many people feel uneasy about enhancement technologies, yet have a hard time explaining why. This unease is often less with the technologies themselves than about the desires and aspirations that they express. I suggest here that we can diagnose the source of that unease by looking at three themes that emerge in Taylor's writings about the making of the modern self: the importance of social recognition, the ethics of authenticity, and the rise of instrumental reason.
authors: Center for Bioethics, University of Minnesota, 410 Church Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA. ellio023@umn.edu
authors: Carl
authors: C
authors: Elliott
mesh_terms: D024803:Biomedical Enhancement / Q000941:ethics*; D004532:Ego; D006801:Humans; D009014:Morals; D010686:Philosophy, Medical; D012933:Social Identification