The first part of this article presents the modern approach to transhumanism and its respective bioethical analysis, aiming to present this analysis under a scheme of reasonableness rather than a search for accuracy after having expressed in a summarized but concise manner the premises of the intriguing eugenic movement and the positions of various authors in this regard, thus expanding the current description of the techno-scientific state of transhumanist ideas and their desperate emphasis on the improvement of disruptive and emerging biotechnologies. In a second part of the text we will approach the concept of Eugenics and its development from what we know today as Directed Evolution (DE), analyzing axiologically the necessity, the consequences and the conflicts of this concept by virtue of its understanding of the human being, proposing a vision that transcends the conception of a un...

Postmodernity has been characterized by the constant use of relativism to be able to modify and re-signify every concrete and objective concept that is related to the human species. The identity crisis through the adoption of ideologies, materialism, the loss of deontological sense and human dignity are symbiotically related to the cultural, philosophical, social and techno-scientific problem that brings with it the relativization of concepts that are analyzed in the social research today and impact the bioethical understanding of human beings. Understanding the postmodern subject and the relativism that permeates it allows the philosopher, the anthropologist, the bioethicist, the political scientist, the sociologist, the psychologist, among others, to consider as a factor the problem that a relativist perspective raises in a materialist, individualist context and reification of the huma...