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Authenticity and Ambivalence: Toward Understanding the Enhancement Debate
- Hastings Center Report
- The Hastings Center
- Volume 35, Number 3, May-June 2005
- pp. 34-41
- 10.1353/hcr.2005.0067
- Article
- Additional Information
The differences between critics and proponents of enhancement technologies are easily overblown. Both sides of this debate share the moral ideal of being "authentic" to oneself. They differ in how they prefer to understand authenticity, but even this difference is not as stark as it sometimes seems.