Abstract

Transhumanism is a young ideology, and its creators have hazy and confused notion of their forerunners and philosophical roots. The authors attempt to show that some of the ideas and concepts of Karl Marx meet the aspirations of transhumanists to radically transform the human body. This is, first of all, the idea of the revolutionary role of labor and technology in the history of mankind, along with the concepts of the “inorganic body” of man and the essence of man as an “ensemble of social relations”.

Highlights

  • Those who aspire to glimpse into distant future should, as Newton advised, climb onto “the shoulders of giants”

  • For an ideology as newborn and as unfledged as transhumanism is, it is vital to lean on firm points of support in the history of human thought

  • Transhumanists have failed in this task, nor have they displayed any particular interest in undertaking it

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Summary

Introduction

Those who aspire to glimpse into distant future should, as Newton advised, climb onto “the shoulders of giants”. For an ideology as newborn and as unfledged as transhumanism is, it is vital to lean on firm points of support in the history of human thought. Transhumanists have failed in this task, nor have they displayed any particular interest in undertaking it. They have been more passionate about the technological side of the matter, viz. Nick Bostrom’s effort to identify the ideological roots of the transhumanist movement can hardly be considered a serious contribution to the history of science [1].1. Nick Bostrom is a Director of the Oxford Institute for the Future of Humanity, and a co-founder of the World Association of Transhumanists. Following is an attempt to see whether and how Marx’s philosophy of history can help solve the problems on the transhumanist agenda

Marx as a Precursor of Transhumanism
The “Bio-conservative” Objections
Human Nature and the Problem of Freedom
Conclusion
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