[The modern body image as ethical device for biomedical enhancement].
Ovid's "De medicamine faciei feminae" contains the astonishing sentence "Culta placent - all that is artificial is beautiful". In his "Éloge du maquillage" Baudelaire, buidling on Ovid's argument, states that first culture as picture and construction of beauty brings forth the truth of Nature and claims that cosmetics that allow errors of beauty to disappear artificially produce the true fulfillment of human nature. The present article looks into the historical roots of the body images that have emerged in modern times and attempts to derive structural devices for an ethical assessment of the potential we have to enhance human nature.
Kath.-Theol. Fakultät, Ruhr-Universität Bochum. christof.breitsameter@rub.de
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D024803:Biomedical Enhancement / Q000941:ethics*; D001828:Body Image; D003357:Cosmetic Techniques / Q000941:ethics* / Q000639:trends*; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans