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'Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnological Revolution'
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The Abolition of Man?
OUR POSTHUMAN FUTURE: CONSEQUENCES OF THE BIOTECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION. By FRANCIS FUKUYAMA. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 272 pp. $25.
AS MUSTAPHA MOND put it in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, whether human nature is fixed or fundamentally changeable makes "all the difference in the world." Those who believe that human nature is unchanging generally also believe that human beings receive their distinctive form from either nature or God. While they may disagree greatly over its origins, a belief in the constancy of human nature is common to both Christianity and classical thought. Both teach that it is our sempiternal nature that allows ...See the full content of this document
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