Abstract

The subject of the presented paper is transhumanism. The term transhumanism refers to the whole range of various phenomena. The paper makes an effort to organize, at least in preliminary way, the research field and to point out the presumptions, which are common for the whole current. The main purpose of the work is an analysis of the complicated relations linking transhumanism with posthumanism described in the Polish humanities. The analysis of the arguments and specific autodefinitions formulated by transhumanists is aimed to describe the ways in which they interpret the problem of transhumanism. An article focuses above question is transhumanism cultural tendency, social movement, philosophy or utopia? It is also an attempt to identify the assumptions anthropological and axiological of the transhumanism.