What society for our posthuman future? A task for the serious transhumanist thinker
What society for our posthuman future? A task for the serious transhumanist thinker

Summary/Abstract: What is still lacking in the expanding research field of transhumanism is a serious investigation of the social existence and its role in the shaping of the future. Taking Sorgner’s recent book, We have always been cyborgs, as a guide, the paper investigates the roots and possible reasons of the societal blindness that seems to be so prevalent in the transhumanist community. The analysis shows that the principled positions that are by and large accepted in the community, notably Sorgner’s alethic and ethical nihilism, which inform the political-philosophical liberalism of most if not all of its members are untenable without an underlying historical reasoning that sees the evolution of the societies as virtually complete. Since this historical argument is always nonfactual, it results that the question about the future society can and must be addressed if transhumanism is to keep with its philosophical programme.

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