ASSIGNMENT
Choose one option: between 450-600 words.
Option #1
What sort of promise is made by Transhumanism or Posthumanism? What would successful Transhumanism look like? Why is the sort of thing someone could object to?
Option #2
Meilaender seems to suggest that the promise of immortality made by Posthumanism and Transhumanism is taken to be possible is because according to Posthumanists there’s a very strong sense in which those movements don’t imagine persons to be living beings at all, right? That certainly seems counter-intuitive. What would lead someone to think it?
Option #3
Religious hope, says Meilaender, sharply contrasts with the optimism of Posthumanism. Why is that supposed to be so significant and how can it count as an objection to the project of Posthumanism? Is that the same sort of problem Kass sees with Posthumanism or Transhumanism?
