title: [Human nature and the enhancement of human beings in the light of the transhumanist program].
abstract: There are three main approaches about the question of Human Nature. essentialists consider that there exists a permanent Human Nature, shared by every human being. Existentialists consider that there is no such thing as human nature, but inescapable modes of being in the world. A moderate approach would consider that Human Nature can be modified within the limits of anthropological invariants. Transhumanists are conservative in that they think that there is a Human Nature; but they are radical in that they believe that it can (and must) be transcended by bio-technnologies and computer technologies. This project is evaluated as a caricature of suitable human enhancement.
authors.affiliation: UPMF-Grenoble 2. jean-yves.goffi@wanadoo.fr
authors.forename: Jean-Yves
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Goffi
mesh_terms: D024803:Biomedical Enhancement / Q000941:ethics*; D040821:Human Characteristics; D006801:Humans; D010684:Philosophy