Monografia
Manuel Ocampo Ponce es profesor investigador en la Universidad Panamericana, Guadalajara, México. Cirujano Dentista. Licenciado en Filosofía, maestro en Humanidades Doctor en Filosofía en colaboración científica con la Fondation de Recherches et d’Editions de Philosophie Néohellénique de Atenas, maestro en Bioética por el CEIB; es también Doctor en Filosofía y Letras por la Universidad Anáhuac del Sur. Pertenece al Sistema Nacional de Investigadores. Autor de siete libros y alrededor de cuarenta artículos científicos. ORCID 0000-0003-2895-3340. Dirección electrónica: maocampo@up.edu.mx

The transformations that humankind has made of nature to overcome its precariousness and build a better world have been increasingly larger. Three decades ago began a philosophical, scientific, and cultural movement known as transhumanism, which maintains that humankind, through technology, will be able to improve and overcome the limits imposed by his nature. However, not everyone agrees that what transhumanism proposes as «improvements» actually are, nor is there a consensus that humankind can reach beyond the limits of his nature. There is also no consensus on what nature is and to what extent it is possible to transform it, or if this is right or wrong. Thus, we believe that classical and perennial philosophy has something to contribute. This brief work is aimed at recovering some of the foundations of the classical and perennial philosophy that Saint Thomas Aquinas synthesizes and develops and that can guide a metaphysical assessment of transhumanism.