Improving Deficiencies? Historical, Anthropological, and Ethical Aspects of the Human Condition
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Improving Deficiencies? Historical, Anthropological, and Ethical Aspects of the Human Condition. / Schües, Christina.
The Human Enhancement Debate and Disability: New Bodies for a Better Life. ed. / Miriam Eilers; Karin Grüber; Christoph Rehmann-Sutter . Houndmills : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. p. 38 - 63.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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T1 - Improving Deficiencies? Historical, Anthropological, and Ethical Aspects of the Human Condition
AU - Schües, Christina
PY - 2014/1/1
Y1 - 2014/1/1
N2 - Reproductive medicine, biotechnology, and neurosciences provide the technological means for the enhancement of bodily and mental capacities. Enhancement is an intervention into the body and the self that concerns and alters a person’s self-understanding and self-actualization, and thereby the conditio humana.1 The human condition consists of particular conditions and features such as age, natality, mortality, gender, worldliness, vulnerability, and the need for nutrition and support; and also, generally speaking, ‘disability is part of the human condition’, if not permanently then at least temporarily.2 We can experience these features, but they are not necessarily directly visible, like being mortal or vulnerable, or having a predisposition for a particular illness. How or when these features can be experienced also depends upon — as I call it — the conditio mundana.
AB - Reproductive medicine, biotechnology, and neurosciences provide the technological means for the enhancement of bodily and mental capacities. Enhancement is an intervention into the body and the self that concerns and alters a person’s self-understanding and self-actualization, and thereby the conditio humana.1 The human condition consists of particular conditions and features such as age, natality, mortality, gender, worldliness, vulnerability, and the need for nutrition and support; and also, generally speaking, ‘disability is part of the human condition’, if not permanently then at least temporarily.2 We can experience these features, but they are not necessarily directly visible, like being mortal or vulnerable, or having a predisposition for a particular illness. How or when these features can be experienced also depends upon — as I call it — the conditio mundana.
KW - Philosophy
UR - https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781137405524
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84994275184&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1057/9781137405531_3
DO - 10.1057/9781137405531_3
M3 - Chapter
SN - 978-1-349-48775-2
SN - 978-1-137-40552-4
SP - 38
EP - 63
BT - The Human Enhancement Debate and Disability
A2 - Eilers, Miriam
A2 - Grüber, Karin
A2 - Rehmann-Sutter , Christoph
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
CY - Houndmills
ER -