The possibility of human cloning is questioning the human nature itself. Arendt's natality explicates a post-metaphysics of Habermas and Sandel who opposes the liberal eugenics which agitate an eugenic enhancement of the human race. The characteristic...
The possibility of human cloning is questioning the human nature itself. Arendt's natality explicates a post-metaphysics of Habermas and Sandel who opposes the liberal eugenics which agitate an eugenic enhancement of the human race. The characteristic features of Arendt's natality are the contingency and freedom. While Habermas suggests a contingency in natural coincidence which is attributed to biological conditions, Sandel draws an unforeseeable natality, meaning the contingency itself. Habermas continues to assert that the freedom is assured by understanding of the bound beginning because man cannot control the birth as a contingency in natural coincidence. In contrast, Sandel proposes to adopt a stand of given life according to the contingency of unforeseeable natality as a gift. A new interpretation of the natality will propose a political action as a new beginning. This proposal allows natality as a critique of biotechnology developments.