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Challenges of Transhumanism for Virtue Ethics

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Published/Copyright: March 14, 2023

Abstract

In this paper we consider some of the basic elements of virtue ethics in confrontation with selected ideas of representatives of trans- and post-humanism. Their ideas challenge us to re-justify and defend the uniqueness of man (the person) as a moral subject in his complex relational physical-psycho-spiritual unity. Using this holistic moral-anthropological vision, it is possible to justify the uniqueness of the human act as moral; the nature and significance of virtue as a moral disposition for a truly good and happy life; the nature and significance of happiness as a true complex eudaimonia in the dynamics of human development. In this complex process, technical artefacts and technologies help man to act in a truly human way towards himself and others, if he uses them rightly.


Corresponding author: Michal Vivoda, Department of Systematic Theology, Faculty of Roman Catholic Theology of Cyril and Methodius, Comenius University Bratislava, Kapitulská 26, 81458Bratislava, Slovakia, E-mail:

Funding source: Agentúra na Podporu Výskumu a Vývoja

Award Identifier / Grant number: APVV-18-0103

  1. Research funding: This research was funded by the Slovak Research and Development Agency under contract no. APVV-18-0103: Paradigmatic Changes in the Understanding of Universe and Man from Philosophical, Theological, and Physical Perspectives.

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Received: 2022-11-22
Revised: 2023-01-28
Accepted: 2023-02-01
Published Online: 2023-03-14
Published in Print: 2023-06-27

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