The Future of Human Nature

Foreword.

Are There Postmetaphysical Answers to the Question: What is the “Good Life”?.

The Debate on the Ethical Self-Understanding of the Species.

I Moralizing Human Nature?.

II Human Dignity versus the Dignity of Human Life.

III The Embedding of Morality in an Ethics of the Species.

IV The Grown and the Made.

V Natality, the Capacity of Being Oneself, and the Ban on Instrumentalization.

VI The Moral Lmits of Eugenics.

VII Setting the Pace for a Self-instrumentalization of the Species?.

Postscript.

Faith and Knowledge.

Notes.