NIETSCHE, THE OVERHUMAN AND TRANSHUMANISM

 

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Autor: Sorgner, Stefan Lorenz
Formato: artículo original
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de Publicación:2017
Descripción:Bostrom rejects Nietzsche as an ancestor of the transhumanist movement, as he claims that there were merely some “surface-level similarities with the Nietzschean vision” (Bostrom 2005a, 4). In contrast to Bostrom, I think that significant similarities between the posthuman and the overhuman can be found on a fundamental level. In addition, it seems to me that Nietzsche explained the relevance of the overhuman by referring to a dimension which seems to be lacking in transhumanism. In order to explain my position, I will progress as follows. First, I will compare the concept of the posthuman to that of Nietzsche’s overhuman, focusing more on their similarities than their differences. Second, I will contextualise the overhuman in Nietzsche’s general vision, so that I can point out which dimension seems to me to be lacking in transhumanist thought.
País:Portal de Revistas UNA
Institución:Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UNA
Lenguaje:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.www.una.ac.cr:article/10648
Acceso en línea:https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/praxis/article/view/10648
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Palabra clave:posthuman, transhuman, overhuman, Nietzsche.
posthumano, transhumano, sobrehumano, Nietzsche