Prometheus Unbound: Transhumanist Arguments from (Human) Nature  

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Hauskeller, Michael

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Ethical Perspectives: Journal of the European Ethics Network vol. 16 no. 1 (Mar. 2009), page 3-20.
Topik: Transhumanists; human enhancement; argument from nature; human nature; mythology

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE45.13 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Transhumanists, and generally all those who advocate human enhancement as a moral duty, tend to see themselves as representatives of reason who carry the torch of enlightment into the future. Accordingly, those who find their argument less persuasive and the idea of making better people less appealing are frequently accused of being agents of mere religous faith and old-fashioned taboos. Those "bio-conservatives" are scolded for drawing their objections from a normative conception of human nature that is in no way justified. Transhumanism (understood as a philosophy that urges us to support and endorse unlimited human enhancement), however, rests on certain value assumptions that are tied to a particular conception of human nature that is just as normative as the one transhumanists, sometimes implicitly, sometimes explicitly, refer to what they think it means to be human in order to justify normative claims about what we ought to do, and secondly, that this reference to human nature is in fact unavoidable.

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