Melhoramentos humanos, no plural: pela qualificação de um importante debate filosófico

Abstract

RESUMO No artigo, abordo a ideia de melhoramento humano (MH), visando a contestar três frustrantes tendências dos seus críticos Palavras-chave Melhoramentos humanos, biotecnociência, pluralismo de perspectivas, normatividade. ABSTRACT In this paper, I discuss the idea of human enhancement (HE). My goal is to refute three frustrating trends in the HE criticism, namely the ideas that:(1) human nature will become artificial, suggesting that we will be facing something new and uniquely dangerous, and that it is still possible to preserve a radical separation between nature and technique; (2) it is possible to address and criticize HE from a semantic uniqueness, which is directly related to the previous item; and (3) there is an univocity among the kriterion, Belo Horizonte, nº 129, Jun