Human enhancement technologies and the arguments for cosmopolitanism

  1. Francisco Javier Rodríguez Alcázar 1
  2. Lilian Bermejo Luque 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Granada
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    Universidad de Granada

    Granada, España

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Revista:
Enrahonar: an international journal of theoretical and practical reason

ISSN: 0211-402X 2014-881X

Año de publicación: 2024

Título del ejemplar: Un gir polític al debat sobre la millora genètica

Número: 72

Páginas: 15-33

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.5565/REV/ENRAHONAR.1489 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDDD editor

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Resumen

Según el minimalismo político, un debate es político cuando intenta responder en último término a la pregunta «¿qué hacemos?». Esta posición filosófica explica por qué sería más fructífero contemplar desde una perspectiva política algunas cuestiones relacionadas con las tecnologías de mejora humana que tradicionalmente se han tratado como problemas de ética aplicada. Pero entonces surge la pregunta acerca de quién es el «nosotros» que se interroga, esto es, qué comunidades son las que afrontan los retos políticos provocados por las tecnologías de mejora humana. Defendemos que la comunidad humana global se enfrenta a algunos de esos retos, lo que dando lugar a una perspectiva cosmopolita. Algunos autores han defendido anteriormente la necesidad de una aproximación cosmopolita a asuntos como la pobreza o el cambio climático; sin embargo, al carecer de una diferenciación adecuada entre ética y política, tienden a abogar por el cosmopolitismo con argumentos morales. Defendemos que las tecnologías de mejora humana proporcionan buenas razones en apoyo del cosmopolitismo, entendido como una postura política. En apoyo de esta tesis, examinamos dos casos: el de las píldoras que permitirían comer sin engordar y el de la elección entre diferentes técnicas de mejora cognitiva.

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