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苏珊-莱文(Susan B. Levin)认为,人类认为不老的身体会更好的信心是非理性的。她提出了一个受康德启发的论点,说明人类的理解力无法理性地获取后人类和无老存在的经验。我们通过三步论证对这一理由提出质疑:首先,无龄身体不一定是后人类的。我们应该区分超人类主义的生命延续计划和以提高福祉和生活质量为重点的论述。没有衰老的存在并不需要彻底改变人的时间直觉,这使得理性讨论成为可能。其次,我们认为生物衰老不会带来任何有价值的物品。这些物品指的是衰老的时间维度。最后,我们认为生物衰老确实是负面的,人们可能需要对衰老进行生物技术干预,以实现内在超越。因此,我们理性地认为,不老的身体会更好。
An ageless body does not imply transhumanism: A reply to Levin
Susan B. Levin argues that the human confidence that an ageless body would be better is irrational. She offers a Kantian-inspired argument to show that human understanding cannot rationally access the experiences of a post-human and ageless existence. We challenge this rationale with a three-step argument: first, an ageless body does not have to be post-human. One should distinguish between the transhumanist projects of life extension and accounts focused on enhancing well-being and quality of life. An existence without aging does not require a radical change in one's temporal intuitions, which makes rational discussion possible. Second, we defend that biological aging does not entail any valuable goods. These goods refer to the chronological dimension of aging. Finally, we argue that biological aging is indeed negative and one may need biotechnological interventions in aging to achieve internal transcendence. Thus, we rationally argue that an ageless body would be better.
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Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics examines clinical judgment and reasoning, medical concepts such as health and disease, the philosophical basis of medical science, and the philosophical ethics of health care and biomedical research
Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics is an international forum for interdisciplinary studies in the ethics of health care and in the philosophy and methodology of medical practice and biomedical research. Coverage in the philosophy of medicine includes the theoretical examination of clinical judgment and decision making; theories of health promotion and preventive care; the problems of medical language and knowledge acquisition; theory formation in medicine; analysis of the structure and dynamics of medical hypotheses and theories; discussion and clarification of basic medical concepts and issues; medical application of advanced methods in the philosophy of science, and the interplay between medicine and other scientific or social institutions. Coverage of ethics includes both clinical and research ethics, with an emphasis on underlying ethical theory rather than institutional or governmental policy analysis. All philosophical methods and orientations receive equal consideration. The journal pays particular attention to developing new methods and tools for analysis and understanding of the conceptual and ethical presuppositions of the medical sciences and health care processes.
Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics publishes original scholarly articles, occasional special issues on important topics, and book reviews.
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