The Future of Human Nature

Publisher's Note. Foreword. Are There Postmetaphysical Answers to the Question: What is the Good Life?. The Debate on the Ethical Self--Understanding of the Species. I Moralizing Human Nature?. II Human Dignity versus the Dignity of Human Life. III The Embedding of Morality in an Ethics of the Species. IV The Grown and the Made. V Natality, the Capacity of Being Oneself, and the Ban on Instrumentalization. VI The Moral Lmits of Eugenics. VII Setting the Pace for a Self--instrumentalization of the Species?. Postscript. Faith and Knowledge. Notes.