Authorities

The authorities in the debate about cognitive enhancement:

Scientific research: The different studies that show long and short term effects of cognitive enhancing drugs, and how people can benefit from them seems to be one of the most influential authority in the debate.

Individual conscience: The conscience takes part in any ethical issue. Different people feel that cognitive enhancement is either right or wrong. Cognitive enhancement appears to be very relativist with no objective view.

Logic and reason: Well it seems very logical to improve an individuals cognitive abilities and be able to learn and comprehend things much better, but the means of how a person goes about that task seems to prevent cognitive enhancement to be an appropriate thing to do.

Values: The values of a person seems to be an authority in whether cognitive enhancement is right or wrong. If a person only values good grades and wants to use cognitive enhancement to get them, it can be argued to be cheating and morally wrong. However, if knowledge and learning is valued and cognitive enhancement is used, then it can be argued that it is morally right to take them. - Again the debate seems to be very relativist to the person.