Robert Ranisch's morality of transhumanism In Theodore Sturgeon's more than human

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Moral philosophy usually constructs a set of normative assumptions about what is right or wrong.

Transhumanism is the new phase that enables the human being to transcend the limits of his imagination and the peak of his intellectual expansion.

It helps to make the world limitless through applying science and technological dimensions to answer some of the questions and issues that frustrate humans' life.

This paper examines basic ethics in Theodore Sturgeon's novel More than Human focusing on the moral position of the Homo Gestalt characters.

Believing that humankind's existence should enhance physiological and mental capacities using science and developing technologies in an ethical framework that serves humanity, Robert Ranisch's morality of Transhumanism was used to explain how Theodore Sturgeon attempted to give a clear and concise characterization of the concept morality.

The study concluded that moral assumptions such as consequentialism, morphological freedom, harm principle, rejecting anthropocentrism, progressivism, obligation to support science, and obligation to enhance are found in the novel through the characters' progression, unity, and their idea of being ethically responsible according to their norms.