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Ethics in Times of Posthumanism

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This commentary is an attempt to rethink the ethics of taking care in posthumanist times. It is an effort to combine ethics, posthumanism and psychological theories. I examine how the psychological notion of long-term well-being can serve as an ethical yardstick and how it can be relevant to non-humans.

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  1. For the differences and similarities between freedom and autonomy see Koopman (2013, pp. 206–209).

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    Galit Wellner

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Wellner, G. Ethics in Times of Posthumanism. Found Sci 22, 329–332 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-015-9442-y

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