Human nature and the enhancement of human beings in the light of the transhumanist program].

There are three main approaches about the question of Human Nature. essentialists consider that there exists a permanent Human Nature, shared by every human being. Existentialists consider that there is no such thing as human nature, but inescapable modes of being in the world. A moderate approach would consider that Human Nature can be modified within the limits of anthropological invariants. Transhumanists are conservative in that they think that there is a Human Nature; but they are radical in that they believe that it can (and must) be transcended by bio-technnologies and computer technologies. This project is evaluated as a caricature of suitable human enhancement.

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Jean-Yves Goffi. Human nature and the enhancement of human beings in the light of the transhumanist program]. Journal international de bioéthique = International journal of bioethics. 2011 Sep-Dec;22(3-4):19-32, 191

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