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Human enhancement and human nature

It is the precisely contemporary ; let's call it 'technological situation', which brought the investigation of human nature back to the surface. If we recognise the existence of something that all people possess, which we could say is a necessary ingredient of human nature, the use of technology in order to enhance human beings becomes questionable. On the other hand, if there is not something that is specific for human nature and that can be violated with the use of technology, there is no reason to stop the merge between the man and the machine. With this investigation of man’s relation with technology in the idea of human enhancement and through transhumanist-bioconservative debate, this paper will try to find an answer to the question where does our need for biological improvement come from. By responding to this question we do not intend to discover ‘the amazing code of human nature’, but to illuminate one of its possible characteristics.

human nature; human enhancement; transhumanism; bioconservativism; Francis Fukuyama; Jürgen Habermas; Arnold Gehlen

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