Abstract:
How to evaluate new biotechnologies that combine, on the one hand,
enormous potential benefits for humans and, on the other hand, colossal
physical and spiritual threats, such as pandemics caused by new viruses,
genetically modified food, environmental pollution and associated toxic
reactions, etc.?1
Humans are primarily threatened not by new technologies and different
types of death machines, but by the Gestell rule (Heidegger term),
which erases the human essence (Heidegger, 2008:308). Gestell (literally
“Enframing”) refers to such an all-encompassing view of technology as a
mode of human existence. This understanding of technology replaces the
traditional understanding of it as a means to an end. Being an “Enframed”
person means facing the challenges of the environment. A human-shaped by the Gestell rule is in danger of losing his self, of communion with the
metaphysical, he/she will have no access to the very sense of prime cause
truth. Human loses identity, dignity, rights; their personality is completely
ignited and covered with selfishness / rational selfishness. Human-person
disappears here; He/she will lose “his/her own possibility of being himself/
herself. “
Habermas rightly points out that the human of the post-industrial era
is on the path to liberal eugenics (Habermas, 2005:78). This factual fact
raises the question of ethical self-understanding not so much for him/her,
but for the human race in general. To solve the problem, we consider it
necessary to move it to the moral dimension. “
The inclusion of ethical regulations in biotechnological processes faces
unprecedented contradictions. Promoting the promotion of a wide network
of information technologies that create comfort for the public and are
seemingly devoid of harmful effects on humans.
The regulation of the biotechnological revolution and its negative consequences
can be avoided by preserving and maintaining moral values.