Open AccessAt overskride mennesket – Interview med Francis Fukuyarma om transhumanisme
Author(s) -
Jakob Bek-Thomsen,
Frank Beck Lassen,
Mikkel Thorup
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
slagmark
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1904-8602
pISSN - 0108-8084
DOI - 10.7146/sl.v0i62.104646
Subject(s) - transhumanism , politics , sociology , applied philosophy , environmental ethics , political philosophy , epistemology , political science , philosophy , law
The interview with the American political scientist Francis Fukuyama deals with what he once called ‘the most dangerous idea in the world’, namely transhumanism. Transhumanism is the intentional redesign of the human body to make it faster, smarter and healthier, ultimately to free it from the constraints of a corporeal existence and to live forever. Fukuyama is asked to reflect on the philosophical, moral and political dilemmas of the new technologies for designing human life and on the failed opportunities of not engaging oneself as individual and community in these new opportunities.