Is Transhumanism a New Face of Bioethics?
The paper deals with a possible interdependence between bioethics and transhumanism. It seems that nowadays transhumanism is a separate discipline and we can say at most about bioethical aspects of that. However, a more in-depth investigation reveals that transhumanism is a rival of the contemporary...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Spanish |
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Editora Universitária Champagnat - PUCPRESS
2020-04-01
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| Series: | Revista de Filosofia |
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| Online Access: | https://periodicos.pucpr.br/index.php/aurora/article/view/26189 |
| Summary: | The paper deals with a possible interdependence between bioethics and transhumanism. It seems that nowadays transhumanism is a separate discipline and we can say at most about bioethical aspects of that. However, a more in-depth investigation reveals that transhumanism is a rival of the contemporary bioethics and tends to take control over it. So, this paper tried to prove that this is not a necessity. There are still vital differences between bioethics and transhumanism and they justify keeping the former separate. The main difference concerns the object of investigation: bioethics is about ethical enquiry of the existing, bodily human being, whereas transhumanism is directed toward a future creature called posthuman. Thus, although there are attempts within transhumanism to replace bioethics, they are still two separate fields of investigation and hence the former is not a new and fully-fledged face of the latter. |
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| ISSN: | 0104-4443 1980-5934 |