2018
DOI: 10.1016/j.peh.2018.04.001
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The use of performance-enhancing technologies in sports through Nicolas Agar’s “truly human enhancement” approach

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“…For instance, the possibilities for genetic manipulation that range from simply increasing human potential to turning a person into a transhuman with superhuman abilities [7] or cognitive enhancement, that could take the form of cognitive enhancers or transcranial stimulators [8], represent just a small part of how the human body and mind could be modified and "updated." Indeed, enhancement is part of sport and, in this context, sport is a laboratory of ethical issues related to human enhancement [9] and there are many opinions whether these and other physical and cognitive enhancement techniques should be allowed or not. On the one hand, stand the pro-enhancement defenders, according to whom athlete enhancement is a part of sport and a place where human limitations can be challenged (an "instantiation of the essence of sport" [9] (p. 45)), whereas on the other hand, there are the opponents, bioconservatives, who consider that enhancement clashes with the idea of the normalcy of a human athlete, and in particular, disagree with substantial or "transformative changes" that alter the athlete's individual experiences and feelings [9].…”
Section: Enhancing Athletesmentioning
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“…For instance, the possibilities for genetic manipulation that range from simply increasing human potential to turning a person into a transhuman with superhuman abilities [7] or cognitive enhancement, that could take the form of cognitive enhancers or transcranial stimulators [8], represent just a small part of how the human body and mind could be modified and "updated." Indeed, enhancement is part of sport and, in this context, sport is a laboratory of ethical issues related to human enhancement [9] and there are many opinions whether these and other physical and cognitive enhancement techniques should be allowed or not. On the one hand, stand the pro-enhancement defenders, according to whom athlete enhancement is a part of sport and a place where human limitations can be challenged (an "instantiation of the essence of sport" [9] (p. 45)), whereas on the other hand, there are the opponents, bioconservatives, who consider that enhancement clashes with the idea of the normalcy of a human athlete, and in particular, disagree with substantial or "transformative changes" that alter the athlete's individual experiences and feelings [9].…”
Section: Enhancing Athletesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Indeed, enhancement is part of sport and, in this context, sport is a laboratory of ethical issues related to human enhancement [9] and there are many opinions whether these and other physical and cognitive enhancement techniques should be allowed or not. On the one hand, stand the pro-enhancement defenders, according to whom athlete enhancement is a part of sport and a place where human limitations can be challenged (an "instantiation of the essence of sport" [9] (p. 45)), whereas on the other hand, there are the opponents, bioconservatives, who consider that enhancement clashes with the idea of the normalcy of a human athlete, and in particular, disagree with substantial or "transformative changes" that alter the athlete's individual experiences and feelings [9]. However, when neither shortnor long-term effects on athletes are all that clear, cautionary principles should apply, yet at the same time that does not mean that these techniques should be prohibited altogether [8,9].…”
Section: Enhancing Athletesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Nicholas Agar [11] (p. 2) makes a distinction between "prudentially rational" and "prudentially irrational" uses of technology and equates these two uses with "moderate enhancement" and "radical enhancement", respectively. López Frías [12] has applied this conceptual framework to sport to determine which technologies are permissible and which are not.…”
Section: Prudential Use Of Technology In Sportmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Agar's interest is not to assess the use of enhancement technologies in sport, but rather to position itself in the wider debate on the ethics of the use of technology for human enhancement. But López Frías [12] (p. 44) places it in the coordinates of sport and in particular in the internalist axiology of morally good values per se that prohibit the use of enhancement technologies in sport.…”
Section: Prudential Use Of Technology In Sportmentioning
confidence: 99%
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