Religion and Human Enhancement Death, Values, and Morality
This collection vigorously addresses the religious implications of extreme human enhancement technology. Topics covered include cutting edge themes, such as moral enhancement, common ground to both transhumanism and religion, the meaning of death, desire
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RELIGION HUMAN ENHANCEMENT and
Death, Values, and Morality
Edited by and
Tracy J. Trothen Calvin Mercer
Palgrave Studies in the Future of Humanity and its Successors Series editors Calvin Mercer East Carolina University Greenville, NC, USA Steve Fuller University of Warwick Coventry, UK
Humanity is at a crossroads in its history, precariously poised between mastery and extinction. The fast-developing array of human enhancement therapies and technologies (e.g., genetic engineering, information technology, regenerative medicine, robotics, and nanotechnology) are increasingly impacting our lives and our future. The most ardent advocates believe that some of these developments could permit humans to take control of their own evolution and alter human nature and the human condition in fundamental ways, perhaps to an extent that we arrive at the “posthuman”, the “successor” of humanity. This series brings together research from a variety of fields to consider the economic, ethical, legal, political, psychological, religious, social, and other implications of cutting-edge science and technology. The series as a whole does not advocate any particular position on these matters. Rather, it provides a forum for experts to wrestle with the far-reaching implications of the enhancement technologies of our day. The time is ripe for forwarding this conversation among academics, public policy experts, and the general public. For more information on Palgrave Studies in the Future of Humanity and its Successors, please contact Phil Getz, Editor, Religion & Philosophy: [email protected]. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/14587
Tracy J. Trothen · Calvin Mercer Editors
Religion and Human Enhancement Death, Values, and Morality
Editors Tracy J. Trothen Queen’s University Kingston ON, Canada
Calvin Mercer East Carolina University Greenville NC, USA
Palgrave Studies in the Future of Humanity and its Successors ISBN 978-3-319-62487-7 ISBN 978-3-319-62488-4 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-62488-4 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017947742 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and acc
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