Morphological Freedom as a Basic Human Right: Three Arguments
18 Pages Posted: 29 Dec 2017
Date Written: November 21, 2017
Abstract
This paper presents an introduction to the concept of morphological freedom and its development through the analysis of three key transhumanist texts. It provides a narrower definition of morphological freedom, which is more suitable for theoretical, ethical and legal analysis than previous articulations of the concept. Focusing on the inequality critics of the concept, the paper presents a Rawlsian, a utilitarian and an egalitarian argument to prove that the the inequality critics are unsound, move afar from common sense logic or target not the concept of freedom, but rather the ways of exercising it. It concludes that it is morally justified that morphological freedom become a basic (human) right.
Keywords: transhumanism, morphological freedom, posthumanism, Rawls
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