Published: 2018-08-181

The Future of Humane Nature

Wojciech Markowski
Humanities and Natural Sciences
Section: Articles
https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.424

Abstract

The cultural and technological development had brought humans as a species to the point when they began becoming increasingly able to interfere in their own genetically inheritable component. The consequences o f this process are multiple: from modifications o f human body, corrections o f imperfections, eugenics, behavioural control and behavioural programming to considerations o f its social impact and associated moral dilemmas, as well as new philosophical challenges relating to the process itself and its scope and the new human condition just being born. In order to fully understand the gravity of the issue instead o f playing it down or even simply overlooking it in the hastiness o f everyday life, we firstly need to comprehend what the human nature is and why it is what it is. I will commence my attempt on this subject based on Edward O. Wilson’s thoughts and other complementary researchers and thinkers on this ground. I intend to analyse multiple problems related to liberal eugenics.

Keywords:

daptation, liberal eugenics, evolution, genetic-cultural coevolution, human nature, norm o f reaction, epigenetic rules, value of adaptation, mind

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Markowski, W. (2018). The Future of Humane Nature. Humanities and Natural Sciences, (21), 298–312. https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.424

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