Human Dignity and Bioethics

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world. Rather, theirs would be a dignity of the strong, consisting in
self-restraint and the positive nurturance of both internal and external
values.*
* For their comments, I’m grateful to Robin Hanson, Rebecca Roache, Anders
Sandberg, Julian Savulescu, and to participants of the James Martin Advanced
Research Seminar (20 October 2006, Oxford) and the Enhance Workshop (27
March 2007, Stockholm) where earlier versions of this paper were presented. I am
especially indebted to Guy Kahane for discussions and insights, many of which
have been incorporated into this paper, and to Rebecca Roache for research assistance.
I would also like to thank Tom Merrill for helpful editorial suggestions.