Ethics of Pharmacological Mood Enhancement
Ethics of Pharmacological Mood Enhancement
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药理学情绪增强的伦理
DOI：
10.1007/978-94-007-4707-4_90
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发表时间：
2015
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通讯作者：
M. Schermer
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作者：
M. Schermer
药理学情绪增强-通过药物改善情绪和相关的心理功能-提出了一些哲学，伦理和社会问题。这些问题部分与关于人类增强的更广泛辩论中已知的问题一致，部分与神经科学和神经技术影响我们关于我们是谁以及我们应该如何理解自己的想法的方式有关。这篇文章概述了过去二十年来学术文献中关于情绪增强的讨论。在对情绪增强和相关的伦理争论进行了简要的历史回顾之后，我们将更详细地讨论关于情绪增强的最重要的伦理和哲学问题。首先，这些包括幸福和人类福祉的本质和价值。其次，讨论了关于真实性、身份以及对自我的正确看法和态度的问题。最后，还有关于医学的适当作用的问题，以及对心理状态和特征的医学化以及工业作用的批评。它的结论是，随着新技术的出现和现代社会中的最佳心理功能的重要性越来越大，这些问题将在不久的将来仍然很重要，即使它们可能不再被分组在一起的标题下的“情绪增强”。
Pharmacological mood enhancement-the improvement of mood and related mental functions by means of pharmaceuticals-raises a number of philosophical, ethical and social questions. These questions are partly in line with questions known from the broader debate on human enhancement and partly relate to the ways in which neuroscience and neurotechnologies are affecting our ideas about who we are and how we should understand ourselves. This contribution gives an overview of the mood enhancement discussion as it has played out in the academic literature over the last twenty years. After a brief historical overview of mood enhancement and the associated ethical debate, the most important ethical and philosophical issues regarding mood enhancement are addressed in more detail. These include, first, the nature and value of happiness and human well-being. Secondly, issues regarding authenticity, identity, and the proper view of and attitude towards the self are discussed. Finally, there are questions about the proper role of medicine and the critique on the medicalization of psychological states and traits and the role of industry. It is concluded that with the advent of new technologies and the increasing importance of optimal mental functioning in modern societies, these issues will remain important in the near future, even if they may no longer be grouped together under the heading of ‘mood enhancement’.