Abstract
urgen Habermas’s recent book Die Zukunft der menschlichen Natur. Auf dem Weg zu einer liberalen Eugenik (Suhrkamp Verlag, 2001) is discussed. Particular attention is paid to the central argument concerning the adverse effects the general acceptance of cloning and pre-implantation genetic diagnostics (PGD) would have on the moral and political self-understanding of present and future generations. The argument turns to a critique of Habermas’s central arguments against PGD, and develops at least two arguments that are in harmony with his general defense of procedural democracy and deontological morality. Appeal is made to Peter Singer and John Rawls to develop arguments that do not reject either PGD or genetic engineering and that are nonetheless in full compliance with the spirit of political modernity, as is defended and defined by Habermas. The conclusion calls for less moralizing and more political-economic critique of the biotechnologies unleashed by the information revolution.
Highlights
Jürgen Habermas’s recent book Die Zukunft der menschlichen Natur
Particular attention is paid to the central argument concerning the adverse effects the general acceptance of cloning and pre-implantation genetic diagnostics (PGD) would have on the moral and political self-understanding of present and future generations
The argument turns to a critique of Habermas’s central arguments against PGD, and develops at least two arguments that are in harmony with his general defense of procedural democracy and deontological morality
Summary
Jürgen Habermas’s recent book Die Zukunft der menschlichen Natur. Auf dem Weg zu einer liberalen Eugenik (Suhrkamp Verlag, 2001) is discussed. Habermas está interesado en desarrollar argumentos en contra de la eugenesia liberal, no sólo ni simplemente porque le interese el hipotético estatuto de los clones y las personas humanas genéticamente mejoradas, sino sobre todo porque nuestro fracaso a la hora de ocuparnos con seriedad de las implicaciones éticas y morales del uso de tecnologías genéticas sobre nosotros mismos alterará la naturaleza de nuestra cultura política liberal.
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