Axis: Enhancing human nature — Should we use technology to enhance human nature beyond healing?
Technologically altering human nature is a dangerous transgression: it threatens personal dignity, equality between generations, and our relation to what is given. Fragility and finitude are not flaws to be fixed, but conditions of a meaningful human life.
Foundations and implications
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↑ What grounds it
Explaining nature
If nature is ordered by ends and each organism tends toward its completed form, seeking to technologically remake the human amounts to violating a meaningful order. Finalism supports bioconservatism: for Jonas, finitude and vulnerability are not flaws to be corrected, but conditions of a properly human life.
↓ What it implies
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