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Transhumanism

Ethics in Progress, 2015
In his famous paper, Julian Huxley gives the outline of what he believes future humanity could – and should – look like. By pointing out the numerous limitations and feebleness the human nature is – at the time – prone to, and by confronting them with ...
Julian Huxley
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Is Transhumanism a New Face of Bioethics?

Revista de Filosofia, 2020
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.
Grzegorz Holub
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Metaphysics and Transhumanism. Reflections on “Calculative Rationality” [PDF]

Phainomena, 2023
The paper delves into the complex dynamics between ancient metaphysical understandings and contemporary transhumanist aspirations. Exploring the roots of metaphysics, it provides a panoramic overview of its key philosophers and concepts, and how it has ...
Tonči Valentić
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TRANSHUMANISM AND MORAL EQUALITY [PDF]

Bioethics, 2007
ABSTRACTConservative thinkers such as Francis Fukuyama have produced a battery of objections to the transhumanist project of fundamentally enhancing human capacities. This article examines one of these objections, namely that by allowing some to greatly extend their capacities, we will undermine the fundamental moral equality of human beings.
Wilson, James
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Risk Medicine and Transhumanism. [PDF]

Thorac Res Pract, 2023
New developments in bioinformatics, artificial intelligence, and nano-biotechnologies will radically change the practice of medicine to be exhibited in the coming years. One approach that has the potential to carry this changing medical practice into a superhuman age and that has been dominating medical literature in recent years is the risk approach ...
Elbek O.
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Weak transhumanism: moderate enhancement as a non-radical path to radical enhancement [PDF]

Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 2023
Cian Brennan
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Transhumanism and Ethics of Responsability

Resonancias: Revista de Filosofía, 2018
Transhumanism is a current of thought that promotes human enhancement through technological progress. The debate that provokes transhumanism needs to be thought in the light of scientific and technological progress and at the same time demands to be ...
Antonio Luis Terrones Rodríguez
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The Pilgrim’s Progress or Regress? The Case of Transhumanism and Deification

Religions
Transhumanism presents a view of human progress by transcending the human, regarding finitude and suffering to be fundamental problems that must be overcome by radical bioenhancement technologies.
Kimbell Kornu
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Transhumanism, Human Moral Enhancement, and Virtues

Religions
Moral transhumanism is a project that aims to enhance human beings by using modern technology in a morally beneficial way. This article discusses the problems and ethical dilemmas raised by transhumanism, notably whether (moral) virtues may be enhanced ...
Vojko Strahovnik, Mateja Centa Strahovnik   +1 more
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Transhumanism and Evolution. Considerations on Darwin, Lamarck and Transhumanism

Ethics in Progress, 2014
In the paper, I discuss the possible gap between the transhumanist perspective of controlling and perfecting human evolution through scientific means and the Darwinian and neo-Darwinian theory of biological evolution.
Filip Bardziński
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