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In this paper, I analyze the risks of transhumanism from a legal-philosophical perspective, a development that proposes to transform human beings through the direct application of advanced technologies. I highlight the weak points of transhumanism, calling into question its goals, its moral principles and its conception of the human being. Instead, I defend a humanism that preserves personal autonomy and human dignity. Moreover, I point to the need for an adequate ethical education to recognize the enormous danger involved in blindly following science and technology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to analyze the bonds that occur between the notion of academic freedom and religion, from the scope of the dogmatic core of the right, but in the line of their historical relations and the emergence of modern academic freedom as well. The examination is performed in the context of german research university, which strongly contrast with scholastic period, but also in the context of its further development in the American university. This process ends with the AAUP 1915 Declaration, which shapes the present status of relationships between denominational and public universities. The main proposal of the paper is that academic freedom and faith, despite they seem opposed to modern mentality, actually are inseparable at the essence of the right, either from a negative or a positive point of view. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The relationship between science, technology and praxis is one of the key issues to understand the theory of Jürgen Habermas. The need to broaden rationality has forced Habermas to consider this legal phenomenon. In this paper I attempt to show how Habermas emphasizes the duality of law, because it can be a means of emancipation, but also a modernizing object and an instrument of modernization with the subsequent repercussions on the freedom of contemporary societies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]