Personal Identity in Enhancement
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| Year of publication | 2015 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Ostium – internetový časopis pre humanitné vedy |
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| Web | plná verze |
| Field | Philosophy and religion |
| Keywords | enhancement; transhumanism; personal identity; criterion of identity; practical concerns |
| Description | The aim of this paper is to introduce the concept of human enhancement, its methods and its relation to personal identity. Also several approaches to personal identity will be described. Transhumanism is a special think tank supporting human enhancement through modern technologies and some of its representatives claim, that even great changes to human organisms will not affect their personal identity. I will briefly describe the most important means of human enhancement and consider the problem of personal identity for each of them separately. |
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