BIOÉTHIQUE, ANTHROPOLOGIE THÉOLOGIQUE ET TRANSHUMANISME

Abstract

Bioethics, theological Anthropology and Transhumanism. Transhumanism is the platform of the conceptual debates, a cultural current that brings together philosophers, theologians, engineers, doctors, researchers from all fields of science, who anticipate the face of tomorrow’s world from the perspective of the interaction between bioethics and bioengineers and technological progress and the evolution of technoscience. From the initial transhumanism defined by the biologist Julian Huxley (1887-1975) which leads to the increase of life expectancy, and to the improvement of the human condition, we arrive at the ideological positions of posthumanism that seek to argue the manipulation of the evolution of the human being for utilitarian purposes or in the direction of imposing cultural and political pressures in the direction of the artificialization of the natural man. At the present time, a consensus is needed in the meta-analysis of the results of frontier research, of which theology is also a part, in order to arrive at an anthropological model unanimously accepted by the socio-human disciplines, which can substantiate any bioethical decision, more chosen in matters concerning the dignity of life, the quality of life and the dignity of death for any human being, according to the specific position he occupies in the world.