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Posthuman Personhood (Hardcover)
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Posthuman Personhood (Hardcover)
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Posthuman Personhood takes up the ethical challenge posed by
Francis Fukuyama's work, Our Posthuman Future. Daryl J. Wennemann
argues that the traditional concept of personhood may be fruitfully
applied to the ethical challenge we face in a posthuman age. He
draws upon Wilfrid Sellars' treatment of the concept of a person
within "the manifest image of man in the world." Sellars proposed
that we develop a stereoscopic view of reality that includes both a
scientific understanding of the world and a meaningful place for
persons living and acting in the world. Following Mary Anne Warren,
Wennemann develops a distinction between two meanings of the term
"human," a biological meaning and a moral meaning, and maintains
that all (biologically) human beings are persons. But, it is not
necessarily the case that all persons must be (biologically) human.
After drawing on a contemporary version of Kant's distinction
between a theoretical possibility and a real possibility, the book
posits that biologically non-human persons like robots, computers,
or aliens are a theoretical possibility but that we do not know if
they are a real possibility. Finally, Wennemann describes an ethic
of self-limitation for the posthuman age.
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