La idea más peligrosa del mundo: Hacia una crítica de la metafísica transhumanista

Abstract

In this paper I examine some philosophical aspects of transhumanism, in particular its assumptions about human nature (“philosophical anthropology”) and the philosophy of technology implicated in them. I focus on genetic engineering and “directed evolution”, a central narrative in the promotion of a “posthuman” future that (according to the transhumanists) will bring wide-ranging benefits to humanity. I argue that transhumanism advances a deliberative theory of value in the context of a market model for the commercialization and distribution of the goods promised by reprogenetics. This deliberative theory, in turn, is supported on an anthropological vision heavily anchored on the humanist tradition. I argue that this strategy leads us to profound contradictions, since the individualist-mercantilist model cannot lead to any global benefit for human “nature”.