Humanity's End: Why We Should Reject Radical Enhancement

by Nicholas Agar and Professor Nicholas Agar

Book Overview

An argument that achieving millennial life spans or monumental intellects will destroy values that give meaning to human lives. Proposals to make us smarter than the greatest geniuses or to add thousands of years to our life spans seem fit only for the spam folder or trash can. And yet this is what contemporary advocates of radical enhancement offer in all seriousness. They present a variety of technologies and therapies that will expand our capacities...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262014629
• ISBN13: 9780262014625
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Bradford Book
• Length: 219 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher