Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This article studies the use of the category of freedom by several of the most influential transhumanist thinkers to justify intervening in the human genome for enhancement purposes. Thus, it analyses the principles of morphological freedom and procreative autonomy, the main ways in which the idea of freedom is discussed in this field of study. It also examines the corrections and nuances that transhumanism itself proposes to these principles, since it is difficult to harmonise them with equality or social equity, as well as the arguments presented by bioconservative thinkers who are critical of transhumanism and the genetic manipulation of the human species for its bio-enhancement. The conclusion invites us to take this public debate seriously so that any genetic manipulation in humans carried out with the aim of enhancing the species is subject to democratic control.
Source: Tópicos Revista de Filosofía
Author: Brais González Arribas
Institution: Universidade de Vigo
Language: English
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4413514719