• 中国科学学与科技政策研究会
  • 中国科学院科技政策与管理科学研究所
  • 清华大学科学技术与社会研究中心
ISSN 1003-2053 CN 11-1805/G3

科学学研究 ›› 2024, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (6): 1145-1151.

• 科学学理论与方法 • 上一篇    下一篇

道德生物增强:弱还原论版本的自然主义道德观

胡珍妮   

  1. 东南大学人文学院
  • 收稿日期:2023-03-27 修回日期:2023-08-25 出版日期:2024-06-15 发布日期:2024-06-15
  • 通讯作者: 胡珍妮
  • 基金资助:
    国家社会科学基金后期资助项目“黑格尔道德现象学讲习录”;江苏省研究生科研与实践创新计划项目“技术-伦理关系的哲学范式及其现代转型”

Moral Bio-Enhancement: a Weak Reductionist Version of Naturalistic Morality

  • Received:2023-03-27 Revised:2023-08-25 Online:2024-06-15 Published:2024-06-15

摘要: 道德生物增强借助非传统的生物医学手段来干预主体的道德情感,在本质上呈现为道德自然主义的哲学进路。然而,一些学者热衷于将该进路归结为一种立场强硬的还原论观点,并从科学上和哲学上来批判道德自然主义的还原论限度,进而否认道德生物增强的合法性。此论断忽视了在道德生物增强的讨论语境中,还原论在本体论和方法论意义上具有不同的形相。道德生物增强在方法论的层面主张还原论对于人类道德现象研究的必要性和重要性,而在本体论的层面试图构建一副科学与人文融合发展的非还原论图景。在此基础上,道德生物增强从根本上呈现为一种弱还原论版本的自然主义道德观,并由此确立了自身的存在论空间与理论合法性。

Abstract: Moral bio-enhancement, which uses non-traditional biomedical means to intervene in a subject's moral emotions, is essentially a philosophical approach to moral naturalism. However, some scholars are keen to attribute this approach to a strong reductionist viewpoint and to critique the reductionist limits of moral naturalism scientifically and philosophically, thereby denying the legitimacy of moral bio-enhancement. This argument ignores the fact that reductionism has different shapes in the ontological and methodological sense when discussed in the context of moral bio-enhancement. Moral bio-enhancement asserts the necessity and importance of reductionism for the study of human moral phenomena at the methodological level, while attempting to construct a non-reductionist image at the ontological level in which science and the humanities are integrated and developed. In this way, moral bio-enhancement is fundamentally a weak reductionist version of naturalistic morality. As a weak reductionist version of moral naturalism, moral bio-enhancement gives its own answer by distinguishing between different forms of reductionism. On the one hand, it acknowledges the validity of the naturalistic reductionist approach and provides a naturalistic reduction and explanation of moral properties, which offers a factual basis and objective foundation for bridging the explanatory gap between natural and moral phenomena; on the other hand, the irreducibility of morality exposes the limits of reductionist beliefs and thus defends the specificity and independence of moral phenomena as uniquely human phenomena. Moral bioaugmentation not only brings morality into the laboratory of scientists, but also reveals the significance of the independent existence of moral properties beyond natural properties. On this basis, moral bioaugmentation, limited to a weak reductionist position, establishes its existential space and theoretical legitimacy by confronting the realities of human ethical life.