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RIVAS GARCIA, Ricardo Marcelino. Transhumanism and Its Promises: An Assessment from Personalist Bioethics Based on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Med. ética [online]. 2026, vol.37, n.1, pp.60-113.  Epub 06-Abr-2026. ISSN 2594-2166.  https://doi.org/10.36105/mye.2026v37n1.02.

This paper is a philosophical analysis of the claims of transhumanism, its elements and characteristics as a synthesis of science, technology, philosophy, ideology, and pseudo-religion, using Mary Shelley’s Gothic novel Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus as an example. The project of “improving” and “overcoming” human limitations reminds us of Dr. Victor Frankenstein in his obsession with defeating death and dominating life, creating an “abomination” whose result ends up reversing the initial claim, because the creature destroys the doctor’s loved ones. Thus, Shelley’s novel can help us anticipate certain characteristics of the transhumanist project, as well as consider some ethical and bioethical problems in the development of this vision and meditate on the anthropological and ethical implications of its scope, from a personalist ethical and bioethical perspective and from Christian humanism.

Palavras-chave : scientific romanticism; humanism; posthumanism; dehumanization.

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