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MORAL BLINDNESS –THE GIFT OF THE GOD MACHINE (Translation of R. R. Belyaletdinov) // ΠΡΑΞΗMΑ. Journal of Visual Semiotics. 2019. Issue 4 (22). P. 244-253

The article “Moral Blindness – The Gift of the God Machine” by John Harris is an example of a lively scientific critical discussion. It is written in the form of a refutation of the opponent’s statements and refers to the key problem of ethics: why something should be done. The choice of this article for translation is determined by its polemical fervor, which allows seeing the track on which neurotechnologies actualize the old philosophical discussion about the benefit of and respect for autonomy. Professor Harris indicates the reasons why the development of the biotechnological concept of morality contradicts the very spirit of ethics as a free and creative acquisition of the value of moral action.

Keywords: moral enhancement, the value of life, feminization, the all female world