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Engelbert Thaler

Onco-mice and cloned sheep, drones and auto-automobiles, neuro-enhancement and prosthetic therapy: Is transhumanism a “movement that epitomizes the most daring, courageous, imaginative, and idealistic aspirations of humanity”, as the American libertarian science writer Ronald Bailey hailed it (2004), or rather “the world’s most dangerous idea”, as the well-known US political scientist Francis Fukuyama (2009) once called it. This paper attempts to elucidate what we understand by the term transhumanism, what topics and problems we face, what media are suitable for classroom use, what lesson scenarios seem effective, what benefits we may reap, and what challenges we have to cope with.