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Article: Our Posthuman Future.(Book Review)
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- National Observer - Australia and World Affairs
- Article date:
- March 22, 2003
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by Francis Fukuyama London: Profile Books, 2002, pp. 256, $49.95
Fukuyama claims that if biotechnology continues as uncontrolled as it is now, we could well become citizens in a society like that in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. To curtail this development, he advocates strong governmental regulation of biotechnology. Such measures would stand in the way of what could become "our posthuman future."
In order to describe what might otherwise be lost, Fukuyama embarks upon an inquiry into the definition of human nature itself. However, the result is a reductionistic account, unable to uphold any basis for human dignity, because it cannot break free from ...