Case of the first genetically perfected babies: analysis from themain transhumanist ethical approaches and the philosophy of Levinas
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https://doi.org/10.51660/riftp.v4i2.180Keywords:
transhumanism, improvement, bioethics, genetics, Ethics, Levinas, philosophyAbstract
With the announcement in 2018 of the birth in China of the first genetically perfected babies so that HIV could not affect them, the academic debate on the transhumanist proposal for human improvement reappeared in a renewed way. In this article, we propose, through the analysis of written and audiovisual sources, to expose the main transhumanist ethical positions, both for and against the improvement carried out, to later include in the discussion some notions of the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas that can enrich the debate. This analysis will allow us not only to delve deeper into this case and define transhumanist ethical positions, but also to offer some Levinasian arguments that can express opposition, thus enriching the debate at a philosophical, ethical and bioethical level.
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