The reductionist anthropology and human safety. The study of Parfit’s concept of survival
Journal Title: Security Dimensions - Year 2015, Vol 13, Issue 13
Abstract
In the face of the ideology and the practice of transhumanism and of dynamically developing technologies of genetics, robotics, information science and the nanotechnology the essential changes of the condition of the individual and social life are becoming more and more real. Most general visualising these progressive changes and threats they are carrying which, was conducted as part of the so-called constitutive reductionism by Derek Parfit. In the article there is discussing Parfit’s analyses in the context of bioethics problems.<br/><br/>
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Teresa Grabińska
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