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The Technoethical Ethos of Technic Self-Determination

The Technoethical Ethos of Technic Self-Determination

Francesco Albert Bosco Cortese
Copyright: © 2016 |Volume: 7 |Issue: 2 |Pages: 27
ISSN: 1947-3451|EISSN: 1947-346X|EISBN13: 9781466691858|DOI: 10.4018/IJT.2016070101
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Cortese, Francesco Albert Bosco. "The Technoethical Ethos of Technic Self-Determination." IJT vol.7, no.2 2016: pp.1-27. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJT.2016070101

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Cortese, F. A. (2016). The Technoethical Ethos of Technic Self-Determination. International Journal of Technoethics (IJT), 7(2), 1-27. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJT.2016070101

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Cortese, Francesco Albert Bosco. "The Technoethical Ethos of Technic Self-Determination," International Journal of Technoethics (IJT) 7, no.2: 1-27. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJT.2016070101

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Abstract

This paper addresses concerns that the development and proliferation of Human Enhancement Technologies (HET) will be (a) dehumanizing and (b) a threat to our autonomy and sovereignty as individuals. The paper argues contrarily that HET constitutes nothing less than one of the most effective foreseeable means of increasing the autonomy and sovereignty of individual members of society. Furthermore, it elaborates the position that the use of HET exemplifies – and indeed even intensifies – our most human capacity and faculty: namely the desire for increased self-determination, which is referred to as the will toward self-determination. Based upon this position, the paper argues that the use of HET bears fundamental ontological continuity with the human condition in general and with the historically-ubiquitous will toward self-determination in particular. HET will not be a dehumanizing force, but will rather serve to increase the very capacity that characterizes us as human more accurately than anything else.

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