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Life-extending enhancements and the narrative approach to personal identity
Abstract
Various debates on the desirability and rationality of life-extending enhancements have been pursued under the presupposition that a generic psychological theory of personal identity is correct. I here discuss how the narrative approach to personal identity can contribute to these debates. In particular, I argue that two versions of the narrative approach offer good reasons to reject an argument against the rationality of (certain forms of) life-extending enhancements.
- enhancement
- persons
- quality/value Of life/personhood
- self-constituting narrative approach
- relational narrative approach
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