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Changing Patterns of Existence from Human to Posthuman: An Ethical Overview
Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research Pub Date : 2023-08-22 , DOI: 10.1007/s40961-023-00302-3
Priyanka Basak , Debika Saha

Human civilization, in its continuous evolution, remoulded itself from a biological organism to a biological and technological mixed being. Intensely developed technologies help human beings to make their bodily existence more powerful. Through body enhancement technology, human beings transform themselves into a transhuman and then to a posthuman, in an evolutionary manner. Whereas transhumanism depicts cultural, social, and mainly technological movements, posthumanism is popularized as a philosophical interpretation. Posthuman researchers make a new form of life through the amalgamation of human biology and mechanical technology and portrayed it by the name ‘cyborg’. However, through such inventions, there arise some questions regarding the morality of cyborgs and its effects in the domain of human moral life. The main question addressed towards the enhancement of technology is, ‘Do cyborgs downgrade human values?’. Thus, the article focuses on how posthumanism creates its place in the recent world among other philosophical views. It is crucially important to give proper attention to posthumanism now, not only because of its recent and ongoing rise as a political and cultural force but because of the major breakthroughs that posthumanism emphasizes. Morality always stands as a firm discussion in the field of philosophy. Technological enhancements in human life bring a lot of moral questions about human life and sociocultural activity. In doing so, this article tries to light up on some ethical issues regarding posthumanism and at the same time tries to show how and why posthumanism and its morality are different from the modern or humanist approach and its ethical concepts.



中文翻译:

从人类到后人类的生存模式的变化:伦理概述

人类文明在不断的进化中,从生物有机体重塑为生物与技术的混合体。高度发达的技术帮助人类使他们的身体存在更加强大。通过身体增强技术,人类以进化的方式将自己转变为超人类,然后转变为后人类。超人类主义描绘了文化、社会和主要的技术运动,而后人类主义作为一种哲学解释而得到普及。后人类研究人员通过人类生物学和机械技术的融合创造了一种新的生命形式,并将其命名为“赛博格”。然而,通过这些发明,出现了一些关于电子人的道德及其对人类道德生活领域的影响的问题。针对技术增强提出的主要问题是“赛博格是否会降低人类价值观?”。因此,本文重点讨论后人类主义如何在其他哲学观点中在当今世界中占据一席之地。现在对后人类主义给予适当的关注至关重要,不仅因为它最近作为一种政治和文化力量不断崛起,而且因为后人类主义强调的重大突破。道德始终是哲学领域的一个坚定的讨论。人类生活的技术进步带来了许多关于人类生活和社会文化活动的道德问题。在这样做,

更新日期:2023-08-23
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