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The reductionist anthropology and human safety. The study of Parfit’s concept of survival
The reductionist anthropology and human safety. The study of Parfit’s concept of survival

Author(s): Teresa Grabińska
Subject(s): Security and defense
Published by: Wyższa Szkoła Bezpieczeństwa Publicznego i Indywidualnego “Apeiron” w Krakowie
Keywords: bioethics;constitutive reductionism;personal identity;safety of survival;

Summary/Abstract: In the face of the ideology and the practice of transhumanism and of dynamically developing technologies of genetics, robotics, information science and the nanotechnology the essential changes of the condition of the individual and social life are becoming more and more real. Most general visualising these progressive changes and threats they are carrying which, was conducted as part of the so-called constitutive reductionism by Derek Parfit. In the article there is discussing Parfit’s analyses in the context of bioethics problems.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 13
  • Page Range: 95-105
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: English