Transhumanism: Post-humanity or sub-humanity?
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Transhumanism. Postmodernity. Nihilism. Bioethics.Abstract
We live in a post-Christian, post-modern, nihilistic society. The current proponents of the transhumanist worldview usually say that this process of transformation of post-modern man into the post-human superman will be something inescapable, inevitable, and will collide with human history in not too long. This article aims to analyze the foundations and precursors of the technological nihilist thought, the philosophical ideas behind the transhumanist movement, its proposals for the posthuman man, bringing up the comments of its main theorists, its anthropological and soteriological proposal through technology, as well as bringing other points of view, from the vision of these authors, about bioethical and neuroethics issues concerning this transhuman future.
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