Our Posthuman Future

Author: Francis Fukuyama
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Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B000OI1AE8

Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution

In 1989, Francis Fukuyama made his now-famous pronouncement that because "the major alternatives to liberal democracy had exhausted themselves," history as we knew it had reached its end. Download Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. Ten years later, he revised his argument: we hadn't reached the end of history, he wrote, because we hadn't yet reached the end of science. Arguing that our greatest advances still to come will be in the life sciences, Fukuyama now asks how the ability to modify human behavior will affect liberal democracy.

To re-orient contemporary debate, Fukuyama underlines man's changing understanding of human nature through history: from Plato and Aristotle's belief that man had "natural ends," to the ideals of utopians and dictators of the modern age who Search and find a lot of engineering books in many category availabe for free download.

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