Sobre los efectos morales de los fármacos
ISSN: 2462-2753
Year of publication: 2016
Issue Title: Folia Humanística Número 3 - mayo-junio 2016
Issue: 3
Pages: 17-26
Type: Article
More publications in: Folia Humanística
Abstract
If moral feelings are considered the basement of ethical behaviour .... wouldn’t it be reasonable to say that drugs which are able to modify these feelings are modifying us as individuals, too? Is it not possible to think that these drugs makes us better or worse as persons? In this paper we expand some arguments from a previous work by Levy and colleagues about some of these drugs, -of common and widespread use – and we arise some challenging questions concerning freedom and dignity.
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