Publication date: August, 2025
Pages: 195
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Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION. Latin America replies to Transhumanism. A Symposium on Sorgner’s We Have Always Been Cyborgs
Raúl Villarroel Soto, Nicolás Rojas Cortés
FIRST REPLY. Stefan Sorgner’s Nihilist Ethics
Miguel González Vallejos
SECOND REPLY. Redesigning Transhumanism: A Response to Stefan Sorgner’s We Have Always Been Cyborgs
Andrés Vaccari
THIRD REPLY. Transhumanism, Decolonized Education and Transeducation: A Response to We Have Always Been Cyborgs
José Díaz Fernández
FOURTH REPLY. Could Cyborgs’ Freedom Enhance Philosophically Transhumanism? A response to Sorgner’s We Have Always Been Cyborgs
Nicolás Rojas Cortés
FIFTH REPLY. The Importance of Genetic Determinism in Transhumanist Proposals
Fabiola Villela Cortés
SIXTH REPLY. Transhumanist Education as Moral Education. Reintroducing Aristotle to the 21st Century
Nicole Oré Kovacs
SEVENTH REPLY. Latin American Transhumanist Construction: Contribution Based on Sorgner Context
Jairo Andrés Villalba Gomez
EIGHTH REPLY. A Glocal Response to Stefan Sorgner’s We Have Always Been Cyborgs
Ferén Barrios
AUTHOR’S REPLY. Glocal Challenges of Euro-Transhumanism
Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
This book addresses two topics that have been widely criticized in Spanish-language academic circles: transhumanism and the thought of Stefan L. Sorgner. If the ‘human nature’ supposedly intrinsic to our being were threatened by the practical application of emerging technologies, one could argue that Sorgner’s weak Nietzschean transhumanism — which denies both the existence of a fixed human nature and a correspondence theory of truth — represents a renewed challenge for Spanish-speaking thinkers: How should one respond to a version of the techno-optimist movement that embraces both alethic nihilism and ethical nihilism? This is the first essay collection by Latin American authors to respond to Sorgner’s original philosophical reflections from his monograph We Have Always Been Cyborgs (2022). As this work demonstrates, engaging with ideas related to these emerging technologies also necessitates a timely philosophical debate.
Nicolás Rojas Cortés is a philosopher and the editor of the academic journal Ethika+, published by the Centro de Estudios de Ética Aplicada (CEDEA) at the Universidad de Chile. His work includes articles on Nietzsche's thought, Transhumanism, and New Realism. Additionally, Rojas Cortés coordinates the Study Group "Subjectivities, Genealogy, and Governmentality" at the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities at the Universidad de Chile.
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