Theological meaning of technology

Abstract

Posthumanism needs to be taken more seriously by bioethicists as posthuman principles and practices permeate public discourse and increasingly operate in medicine. People in positions of power such as bioethics advisory boards, politicians or hospital managers are increasingly using post-operative initiatives with the aim of inducing more the idea of progress than actual benefit.Late modern culture is characterized by a growing posthuman existence, where technology, the doctrine of infinite progress, and plastic identities with capricious wills make up the contemporary public landscape.New procedures and technologies that could be used for human enhancement stimulate the imagination, but what is often left out of these discussions are the long-term anthropological issues. Christians ask what is the purpose of "improvement", what did the human being set out to achieve? In other words, we cannot assess the bioethical issues of human enhancement without also addressing the anthropological vision of the new ideology that set out to enhance the human being in such a way that a "posthuman" type emerges.