PROJEKTOWANIE OSÓB? O depersonalizacji człowieka we współczesnym transhumanizmie
Designing Persons? On Depersonalisation of the Human
Being in Modern Transhumanism
Author(s): Marcin FerdynusSubject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Anthropology
Published by: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II - Instytut Jana Pawła II, Wydział Filozofii
Keywords: depersonalisation; transhumanism; human nature; biomedical enhancement
Summary/Abstract: Achievements of biomedical science allow us to interfere with human nature to a larger extent than ever before. Supporters of such activities, especially transhumanists, hold that technological progress determines an inevitable direction of such interference and all doubts related to biomedical improvement of the human being lack suffi cient grounds. The article considers whether the transhumanist demand for a transformation of the human being into the ‘post-human’ being involves depersonalisation. The conducted analyses show that in the case of transhumanism we would be dealing with twofold depersonalisation of the human being: firstly, the transhumanist postulates jeopardize the attitude of unconditional love, which is the only proper attitude towards the human person, and, secondly, they objectify human life, which as such is unobjectifi able.
Journal: Ethos. Kwartalnik Instytutu Jana Pawła II KUL
- Issue Year: 29/2016
- Issue No: 4
- Page Range: 188-200
- Page Count: 13
- Language: Polish
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