Human Vulnerability in a Posthuman Age: a Theological Reflexion

Abstract

Posthumanism and Transhumanism are a set of several and distinct thinking trends that show the relation between technology and human beings updating the question about what the human being is. Some of these proposals suggest that the technology will be able to overcome all the human limits, and, even more, humans will be able to get a technological immortality. But, a look at what the human being is, points to the need of understanding it as fragile and vulnerable. There is a risk of dehumanization in applying technology if human vulnerability is not taken into consideration.