Argumenty religijne we współczesnej debacie biopolitycznej : przypadek doskonalenia człowieka
The Religious Arguments in the Contemporary Biopolitical Debate: The Case of Human Enhancement

Summary/Abstract: The Religious Arguments in the Contemporary Biopolitical Debate: The Case of Human EnhancementThe objectives of our study are: 1) the identification of religious arguments which occur in the contemporary biopolitical debate over human enhancement; 2) a critical assessment of bioconservative religious arguments. Our study hypothesises that: 1) both camps in the biopolitical debate in question refer to religious arguments; 2) but predominantly these are bioconservatists who do premise their position on religious arguments; 3) however, despite the fact that bioconservatists try to argue more in a religious vein than transhumanists actually do, and even though they are convinced that this kind of dialectical strategy is of a considerable advantage for them, their reasons do not justify their conclusions. In sum, taking into consideration the actual status of the biopolitical debate over human enhancement on the one hand, and intrinsic ends driving bioconservative dialectic on the other, we are prone to derive a conclusion that argumentative means deployed by bioLuddites to date have proved being of no avail.

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