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This chapter delves further into the essential principles of transhumanism and assesses its legitimation on the basis of its continuity with traditional practices and theories in order to focus on one of its fundamental features. In particular, two problems are analysed: the continuity between therapy and enhancement and its possible consequences, and the transhumanists’ conception of the human body. The purpose of these analyses is to show that the continuist strategy through which transhumanists seek to legitimise their theses is based on a superficial positivism that oversimplifies the consequences of an indiscriminate use of technology for human enhancement. The final section of the chapter focuses on the role technology plays in enhancement practices, the unintended and uncontrollable effects of which have been ignored by transhumanists.
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Adorno, F.P. (2021). Problems of Transhumanism. In: The Transhumanist Movement. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82423-5_5
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