The Proactionary Imperative debates the concept of transforming human nature, including such thorny topics as humanity’s privilege as a species, our capacity to ‘play God’, the idea that we might treat our genes as a capital investment, eugenics and what it might mean to be ‘human’ in the context of risky scientific and technological interventions.
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Introduction 1. Precautionary and Proactionary as the 21st Century’s Defining Ideological Polarity 2. Proactionary Theology: Discovering the Art of God-Playing 3. Proactionary Biology: Recovering the Science of Eugenics 4. A Legal Framework for the Proactionary Principle The Proactionary ManifestoGiới thiệu về tác giả
Author Steve Fuller: Steve Fuller is Augustus Comte Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK.He is author of eighteen books including Humanity 2.0: What It Means to be Human Past, Present and Future, Dissent over Descent: Intelligent Design’s Challenge to Darwinism, Kuhn vs Popper: The Struggle for the Soul of Science, The Intellectualand Science vs Religion? Intelligent Design and the Problem of Evolution. His work has been translated into twenty languages.
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