[ExI] Essay: "The hermeneutic challeng of genetic engineering: Habermas and the transhumanists"

[natasha at natasha.cc]

Sorry, here:  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19219641
I think the full article was posted to the WTA list.  I'm not in my  
study, so I don't have the link at this hub.  Please look through you  
inbox for WTA messages and see if you can grab the link.

Quoting Stefano Vaj <stefano.vaj at gmail.com>:

> I missed the original reference to the article or you are pointing at
> it for the first time? :-/
>
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:32 PM,  <natasha at natasha.cc> wrote:
>> I just finished a fairly quick read-through of this article.  Some misquotes
>> of data, but it is perceptible in taking on Haraway's use of cyborg to
>> soften the blow of transhumanist technologies. Nonetheless, it is quite
>> beclouding.  Would anyone like to comment on the last sentence:
>>
>> "... transhumanism is at root not grounded simply in the embracing of
>> technological promise (as say Kaku suggests) but rather in a radical
>> demythologised lifeworld, incapable of supporting moral discourse."
>>
>>
>> Natasha
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