A theory of the super soldier : the morality of capacity-increasing technologies in the military / Jean-François Caron.

By:

Caron, Jean-François [Author]

Material type: Text

text

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computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781526117786

Subject(s):

Military art and science -- Technological innovations

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Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

U42 .T446 2018

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Subject: 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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Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Conceptual clarifications: distinguishing capacity-restoring and capacity-increasing technologies; 2 The moral obligation of soldier 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.

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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