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Throughout history, states have tried to create the perfect combatant with superhuman physical and cognitive features that are akin to those of comic book superheroes. However, the current innovations have nothing to do with the ones from the past and their development goes beyond a simple technological perspective. On the contrary, they are raising the prospect of a human enhancement revolution that will change the ways with which future wars will be fought and may even profoundly alter the foundations upon which our modern societies are built on. This book, which discusses the full ethical implications of these new technologies, is a unique contribution for students and scholars who care about the morality of warfare.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1 Conceptual clarifications: distinguishing capacity-restoring and capacity-increasing technologies
2 The moral obligation of soldiers’ enhancement research
3 Military capacity-increasing technologies and their consequences
4 The ethics of developing capacity-increasing technologies
5 Permanent capacity-increasing technologies and the transhumanist danger
Conclusion
Index

A Theory of the Super Soldier: The Morality of

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      Publisher Manchester University Press
      Published 1 October 2019
      ISBN-13 9781526143648
      978-1526143648
      ISBN-10 152614364X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Throughout history, states have tried to create the perfect combatant with superhuman physical and cognitive features that are akin to those of comic book superheroes. However, the current innovations have nothing to do with the ones from the past and their development goes beyond a simple technological perspective. On the contrary, they are raising the prospect of a human enhancement revolution that will change the ways with which future wars will be fought and may even profoundly alter the foundations upon which our modern societies are built on. This book, which discusses the full ethical implications of these new technologies, is a unique contribution for students and scholars who care about the morality of warfare.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction
      1 Conceptual clarifications: distinguishing capacity-restoring and capacity-increasing technologies
      2 The moral obligation of soldiers’ enhancement research
      3 Military capacity-increasing technologies and their consequences
      4 The ethics of developing capacity-increasing technologies
      5 Permanent capacity-increasing technologies and the transhumanist danger
      Conclusion
      Index

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