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A contemplation on the technological attitude of transhumanists to ethics
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Khadijeh Ghorbani Sisakht   , Mohamad Hasan Karimi |
| PhD in Philosophy of Education, Shiraz University. & PhD in Philosophy of Education, Shiraz University. |
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Abstract: (939 Views) |
In the perspective of transhumanism, the scientific improvment of the last few centuries enable modern human to grow compared to his predecessors, but human is still in the early stages of his evolution, and the evolution processes of his nature must be completed regarding to new technologies. Transhumanist introduce themselves as a movement that going to complete this process. The technological idealism of transhumans and their claim of accelerating evolution and improvement of human nature by relying on technology provided many cultural problem and challenges to this movement.
The fate and the circumstance of ethic in the transhuman realm is one of the most important issues. The aim of this investigation, which has done in a descriptive-analytical way, is to explain the program and ideas of transhumanists for ethic circumstance in the transhumanist world. The results of this research showing that the transhumanist view of ethics is completely technological. In this view, the methods of moral growth and cultivation in its conventional sense are removed and replaced by the biological promotion of morality, which develops ambiguity and uncertainty in the field of morality. |
Article number: 1 |
| Keywords: Transhuman, technology, ethics, biological promotion of ethics. |
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Type of Study: theoretic |
Subject:
Applied ethics
Received: 2023/01/31 | Accepted: 2023/11/1 | Published: 2023/11/1
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