human rights in transhumanism

Authors

  • Carlos Alberto Vilar Estêvão Universidade do Minho

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21527/2317-5389.2018.12.14-22

Keywords:

human rights, new humanism, transhumanism

Abstract

The author begins by summarily characterizing human rights today, highlighting the controversies that have arisen around its rationality and utility, in a complex context that points to other values and to a new conception of humanism.In the second part, the article explores some reflections on the place of human rights in transhumanism, understood as a new stage of humanity, with people highly identified with the technologies, lifestyles and visions of the world, that put transhuman as a biotechnological horizonThe author places particular emphasis on the contradictions to which rights are subject, compressed between the progressive ambitions of the defenders of transhumanism and the conservative criticism of their opponents, while highlighting the theoretical potentialities for the renewal of rights in this new context.

Published

2018-11-14

How to Cite

Estêvão, C. A. V. (2018). human rights in transhumanism. Human Rights and Democracy Journal, 6(12), 14–22. https://doi.org/10.21527/2317-5389.2018.12.14-22

Issue

Section

ARTIGOS DE AUTORES ESTRANGEIROS