Abstract
LL TOO OFTEN IN THE PAST humanists have responded to attacks on their faith with greater faith. They have sung the praises of the species by pointing to its achievements, individual and collective. Today, however, that refuge is being denied them for, it is being asked, what if humankind's final and most glorious achievement will be the creation of a species more perfect than its own? How then to defend humankind? And why bother? Why not confess to species-centricism and retire from the field? On this question social critics as disparate as B. F. Skinner and Teilhard de Chardin seem to agree. In this essay, we shall inquire into what it might mean to be human and to indicate why a certain melancholy is not out of keeping with the chance of a humanless future. In general we shall argue that:
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