Jean-Francois Caron

A theory of the super soldier

The morality of capacity-increasing technologies in the military

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Produktbeschreibung

Super soldiers are about to become the new actors in the battlefields of tomorrow. Armed with science fiction-esque equipment and drugs, they are about to make comic book and Hollywood superheroes a reality. -- .

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 212g
• ISBN-13: 9781526143648
• ISBN-10: 152614364X
• Artikelnr.: 55790089

Autorenporträt

Jean-François Caron is Associate Professor of Political Science at Nazarbayev University

Inhaltsangabe

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