The Ultimate Enhancement of Morality

Vojin Rakic, Full Professor, is Director of the Center for the Study of Bioethics, Head of the European Division of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics (Haifa), and Director of the Center for Philosophy of the Institute for Social Sciences. Vojin Rakic, Full Professor, is Director of the Center for the Study of Bioethics, Head of the European Division of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics (Haifa), and Director of the Center for Philosophy of the Institute for Social Sciences. He is also Chair of the Cambridge Working Group for Bioethics Education in Serbia. Rakic is also Head of the Serbian Unit of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics. He has a Ph.D. in Political Science from Rutgers University in the USA (1998). He graduated philosophy in Serbia, and has M.A. degrees in European Studies from the Central European University in Prague and from the Department of Political Science of Rutgers University. He worked as Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Higher Education Policy Studies at the University of Twente in the Netherlands (1999-2001). Between 2001 and 2003, he was UN Special Adviser to the Government of Serbia. Since 2003, he works as University Professor in Belgrade. Rakic publishes primarily in English. His publications include various books and edited collections, as well as numerous articles from the domain of (bio-)ethics, and political philosophy (recent publications: articles in the Journal of Medical Ethics, American Journal of Bioethics, the Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics, Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, Bioethics, Developing World Bioethics, Sexuality and Culture, American Journal of Bioethics - Neuroscience, BioMed Research International, Annals of Internal Medicine, etc.). 

Part 1: Morality and Happiness, Psychopathy and Utilitarianism.- Ch.1  Morality: Innate, Universal?.- Ch.2. Morality: Origin and Future.- Ch.3.Free Will and Moral Bioenhancement as a Compulsory Means of Avoiding "Ultimate Harm".- Ch.4. Past and Present of Happiness and Morality.- Ch.5. The Future of Happiness and Morality, Psychopathy and Utilitarianism.- Ch.6. The Morality of a Global State, the Existence of Morally Superior Beings and "Special Suicide" - Brief Conceptual Explanations.- Part 2: Evil and Good.- Ch.7. Evil.- Ch.8. Good 1.- Ch.9. Good 2.