Sustainable Development and Transhumanism – Enlightenment Visions of Future Generations

Transhumanism, Progress and the Future

This paper argues that one can advocate a moral imperative to pursue enhancement technologies while at the same time rejecting the historical reality of progress and holding a pessimistic view of the future. The first half of the paper puts forth several arguments for why progress is illusory and why one has good reason to be pessimistic about the future of humanity (and posthumanity). The seco...

Competing Enlightenment Visions of the Separation of Church and State

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The Future of Sustainable Development

The concept of sustainable development has become the organizing framework for much economic, social and environmental policy because it meets a policy need. Specifically, it has the potential to address environmental issues in a way that is more consistent with economic and social aspirations than the emphasis on ‘limits to growth’, which was characteristic of much environmental thinking in th...

Sharing Knowledge with Future Generations. Sustainable Development as an Inter- Generational Communication Problem

According to the definition of the Brundtland Commission, that a development is sustainable if “current generations should meet their needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet theirs,” political strategies for sustainable development focus to maintain the opportunities for development and action of future generations. This principle of not compromising the ability of ...