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However, we have come across a reason for thinking such education and cognitive enhancement cannot be sufficient for moral enhancement: to be morally good involves not just knowing what is good, but being so strongly motivated to do it that this overpowers selfish, nepotistic, xenophobic, etc. biases and impulses.
This cannot be sufficient for moral responsibility.
This rules out the first two arguments, because Augustine also, according to Matthews, thought consent and pleasure to be sufficient for moral responsibility even in the absence of a corresponding physical action.
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Taking lucid control dreams as one's point of departure, the question of whether our dreams count as actions and whether this is sufficient for moral responsibility may seem oversimplified, perhaps requiring one answer for lucid dreams and another for nonlucid ones.
I think these purely "secular" resources are and ought to be sufficient for public moral opposition to torture.
But it is unclear why Robert and Baylis think that someone's being confused about the specific case of the chimera would also make them revisit their general belief that being a human being is sufficient for full moral status.
The tarp should be sufficient for privacy.
Suppose, for example, that having a well being, sentience, or consciousness (all of which both animals and humans have) is sufficient for some moral status (e.g., weak rights not to be harmed and to be aided).
The first question might seem more difficult for the naturalist than for some non-naturalists; if goodness really is a sui generis non-natural property then perhaps being directly acquainted with it is sufficient for recognizing it as moral.
But this is a far cry from any claim that aesthetic education is sufficient for either theoretical or moral development, or even that it is necessary for such development, as the only way to cultivate the necessary combination of sensitivities.
So (on Cicero's and Seneca's account) they were not consistent in maintaining that virtue (which incorporates only moral goods) was sufficient for happiness.
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