The Ethics of Vulnerability in the Posthuman Era

Abstract

Beyond the topics of genre and species, the problem of vulnerability arises in terms of posthumanism, which alternates on an empirical basis and also criticizes a rethinking of the human. Whether human, plant or animal, or robot or any hybrid being, every one of them becomes entities for posthumanism with equal dignity, endowed with the ability to enter into symbiosis and be part of a much more complex vulnerability. Thus, appears the reconsideration of the nature-culture duality in a position of equidistance and of equal value given alike to the human or animal kingdom. It is said that in the beginning there was only the classical ideal of "Man", which first appeared under the formulation given by Protagoras as "the measure of all things", which was later reformulated in the Italian Renaissance in the form of a universal model, represented by Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man. The ideals of Classical Antiquity and the Italian Renaissance came to be reconsidered in posthumanism, and what was considered to be part of human supremacy has reached a level equal to that which is part of the animal kingdom. The intensity created by these two parts is based on the division of this planet in ways that are no longer so hierarchical to the position of superiority that the human being assumes. Therefore, the importance of reformulating subjectivity in terms of the current vulnerability in posthumanism is needed, but also the need to invent new forms of ethical relationships or values encountered in the complexity of modern times.