Human nature in biohermeneutic perspective

Abstract

I propose to show that both contemporary naturalisation, now also in neurological version, and technologisation, are the fruit of interpretations that aim to offer a new image of man, for example, through formulas such as «homo poieticus» (one could even say «neuropoieticus»). But the decisive question is to see if it is possible to reconstruct personal reality, based on these new images, maintaining the claims expressed by means of the value of dignity of the human person, or if they are really replaced by others that surpass the humanising aspect, whereby, based on different traditions, we understand ourselves and try to improve human life. In this regard, I would like to take advantage not only of the ever fruitful Aristotelian thinking, but also the Kantian and Nietzschean thinking, in hermeneutics version, and their association link with the Spanish philosophy tradition of Ortega, Zubiri and Laín, because I believe they offer an adequate base to incorporate and articulate the new neuroscientific knowledge and techno-scientific intervention proposals.

Keywords

• naturaleza, cuerpo, persona, hermenéutica, Homo neuropoieticus, filosofía española.