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Unfit for the future? The depoliticization of human perfectibility, from the Enlightenment to transhumanism

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Theory, 2018
An intellectual and cultural movement advocating a radical enhancement of human performance via technoscientific and biomedical advances, transhumanism has grown in notoriety in recent years.
Nicolas le Dévédec
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Human perfectibility redux

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, 2003
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Human enhancement and perfection

Journal of Medical Ethics, 2013
Both, bioconservatives and bioliberals, should seek a discussion about ideas of human perfection, making explicit their underlying assumptions about what makes for a good human life. This is relevant, because these basic, and often implicit ideas, inform and influence judgements and choices about human enhancement interventions.
Roduit Johann A. R.   +2 more
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The perfect human

2019
Unlocking the mysteries of human genetics and developing the technologies to manipulate heredity will give, for better or worse, a new dimension to our ability to set the fate of our children and through them and their children and ultimately the fate of humanity itself. It starts now. In our time, ad hoc experimentation has already begun.
Theodore J. Gordon, Mariana Todorova
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Rational devotion and human perfection

Synthese, 2017
In the Bhagavad-Gita, Krishna lays out three paths of yoga as the means to achieve human perfection: the path of self-less action (karma yoga), the path of knowledge (jnana yoga), and the path of devotion (bhakti yoga). In this paper I will argue for an interpretation of the Gita in which the path of devotion is the last step that leads to moksha. This
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Maimonides on human perfection

2022
This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author. Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.
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