The Future of Human NatureISBN: 978-0-7456-2987-2
Paperback
136 pages
April 2003, Polity
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In this important new book, Jürgen Habermas – the
most influential philosopher and social thinker in Germany today
– takes up the question of genetic engineering and its
ethical implications and subjects it to careful philosophical
scrutiny. His analysis is guided by the view that genetic
manipulation is bound up with the identity and self-understanding
of the species. We cannot rule out the possibility that knowledge
of one’s own hereditary factors may prove to be restrictive
for the choice of an individual’s way of life and may
undermine the symmetrical relations between free and equal human
beings.
In the concluding chapter – which was delivered as a lecture on receiving the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade for 2001 – Habermas broadens the discussion to examine the tension between science and religion in the modern world, a tension which exploded, with such tragic violence, on September 11th.