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Challenges of Transhumanism for Virtue Ethics

Published:2023-03-14 Issue:2 Volume:33 Page:237-249
ISSN:1210-3055
Container-title:Human Affairs
language:en
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Author:

Vivoda Michal¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Systematic Theology , Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology of Cyril and Methodius , Comenius University Bratislava , Kapitulská 26, 81458 Bratislava , Slovakia

Abstract

Abstract In this paper we consider some of the basic elements of virtue ethics in confrontation with selected ideas of representatives of trans- and post-humanism. Their ideas challenge us to re-justify and defend the uniqueness of man (the person) as a moral subject in his complex relational physical-psycho-spiritual unity. Using this holistic moral-anthropological vision, it is possible to justify the uniqueness of the human act as moral; the nature and significance of virtue as a moral disposition for a truly good and happy life; the nature and significance of happiness as a true complex eudaimonia in the dynamics of human development. In this complex process, technical artefacts and technologies help man to act in a truly human way towards himself and others, if he uses them rightly.

Funder

Agentúra na Podporu Výskumu a Vývoja

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

Law,Philosophy,Sociology and Political Science

Link

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/humaff-2022-1004/pdf

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