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Reasons of the Heart: Emotion, Rationality, and the "Wisdom of Repugnance"
- Hastings Center Report
- The Hastings Center
- Volume 38, Number 4, July-August 2008
- pp. 36-45
- 10.1353/hcr.0.0037
- Article
- Additional Information
Much work in bioethics tries to sidestep bedrock questions about moral values. This is fine if we agree on our values; arguments about human enhancement suggest we do not. One bedrock question underlying these arguments concerns the role of emotion in morality: worries about enhancement are derided as emotional and thus irrational. In fact, both emotion and reason are integral to all moral judgment.