Liberal Eugenics and Habermas Critique

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze Jürgen Habermas’s critique of liberal eugenics and why it should be stopped. For this purpose, the concept of liberal eugenics, its features and goals, post- metaphysics in Habermas’s philosophy, will be exposed, as well as the notions of Körper and Leib, which are three key elements that the philosopher presents to articulate his critique. Next, the importance of the naturalness of birth and reciprocal relations between indi- viduals, and how they can be affected by genetic modifications, will be explored to finally expose the measurements that Habermas proposes against the effects and consequences of genetic engineering.