K OTÁZKE VÝZNAMU ĽUDSKEJ PRIRODZENOSTI PRI PRESADZOVANÍ TRANSHUMANISTICKÝCH IDEÍ

• Authors: Smolková Eva

Title variants

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On the question of the importance of human nature in promoting transhumanist ideas

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The aim of the paper is to reflect on the issue of human nature as a necessary response to transhumanist notions of the need to overcome evolutionary limits. The possibility of influencing human nature by technological methods and means is a theme that is communicated as a change “from humanism to post-humanism.” The purpose is to reflect on whether and why we need the term “human nature” and whether human nature should be accepted as a value or whether the concept of human nature can be abandoned. The paper points out that the ethical discourse on human nature is deficient, yet it is crucial for the potential emergence of normative criteria that will influence the future shape of the species Homo sapiens as well as social relations and criteria for the functioning of society.

Keywords

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HUMAN NATURE; EVOLUTIONARY LIMITS; TRANSHUMANISM; HUMANISM

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2025
• Volume: 80
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 208 – 222

Contributors

author

Smolková Eva

• Filozofický ústav, Slovenská akadémia vied, v. v. i., Klemensova 19, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1450-869

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/filozofia.2025.80.2.5