O (nie)tozsamosci człowieka genetycznie zmodyfikowanego

• Authors: Stefan Konstanczak

Title variants

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ON (NON)IDENTITY OF THE GENETICALLY CHANGED HUMAN BEING

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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The author of the article deals with problem of biological identity of the human being. He considers validity of conviction that human fetus and an adult at the age of 50is the same person. In the article the following question appears: can individual biography of the human being determine his biological identity? Sex, intelligence, thresholdsof reaction decide about the identity nowadays. The above-mentioned statement maylose its importance because of possibility of genetic modifications. A situation in which a genetically modified person will have measurable parameters identical or comparable with the precursors who are not modified cannot be out of the question. The author’s conclusion contains a postulate to replace (in the future) the contemporary indications of identity with parameters which are quite not essential nowadays. An ordinary human’s anxiety about otherness will be decisive (according to Freud’s idea of Das Unheimliche).

Keywords

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BIOLOGICAL IDENTITY; HUMAN BEING; GENETIC MODIfiCATIONS

• Publisher: Bialystok University Press
• Journal: Archeus. Studia z bioetyki i antropologii filozoficznej
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 12
• Pages: 5-17

Contributors

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Stefan Konstanczak

• Uniwersytet Zielonogorski al. Wojska Polskiego 69, 65–762, Zielona Gora, POLSKA