title: [Beyond eugenics: posthumanism as Homo patiens denials].
abstract: Throughout history there have been attempts to overcome human limitations by means of technique. The novelty of the 20th century has been to try to extirpate all the faults, the suffering, the disease, and even the death. This power has been attributed successively to machines (the futurism), to the genetic information (the eugenism) and to the electronic information (the posthumanism). In all cases, it's unknown the distinction between inevitable faults, ontological deficiencies, as the reality of death, and avoidable ones, sociological deficiencies, as the deaths due to circumstances as lack of drinkable water, of medicaments, wars or any other type of violence. The due way of confronting the human faults is to try to eradicate their avoidable causes and at the same time to understand the sense of those that cannot be avoided, as occasion of the self-overcoming and the opening to the Transcendence.
authors.affiliation: Universitat de Valencia, Spain. jesus.ballesteros@uv.es
authors.forename: Jesús
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ballesteros Llompart
mesh_terms: D005053:Eugenics; D006808:Humanism; D006801:Humans; D010684:Philosophy