Biomedical and Ontological Transformation of Death Into Sickness

Carlos Fernando  Álvarez González; Juan Diego  Hernández Albarracín; Marc  Pallarès Piquer

Carlos Fernando Álvarez González Universidad de Pamplona-Colombia Universidad Simón Bolívar - Barranquilla - Colombia https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3332-9462
Juan Diego Hernández Albarracín Universidad de Pamplona - Colombia Universidad Simón Bolívar – Cúcuta - Colombia j.hernandez@unisimonbolivar.edu.co https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1165-7027
Marc Pallarès Piquer Universidad Jaime I de Castellón – Castellón de la Plana - España https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5767-6894

Keywords: Biotechnology; death; aging; body; ontology.

Abstract

This piece seeks to present some origins of the biomedical transformation and ontological of death -as an ontological determinant- into sickness, a step that will be possible thanks to the advancements in medicine and biotechnology. From that exposition, the contributions of Craig Venter, María Blasco, Raymond Kurzweil, and Nick Bostrom about the control and overcoming of aging, robotic humanizations, and constant improvement of human life limitations in front of its determinant possibility (finitude). Those issues were studied from the philosophical platform that Martin Heidegger expresses in Being and Time, where he understands death as the most proper, irrespective, and unavoidable possibility the Dasein must face. Finally, the problem of death with senescence in its current state is articulated. The article promotes, in conclusion, new propositions to prosecute the characterization of this biomedical and ontological transformation of death -as an ontological determinant- into sickness.

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Author Biographies

Carlos Fernando Álvarez González, Universidad de Pamplona-Colombia Universidad Simón Bolívar - Barranquilla - Colombia

Philosopher at the Industrial University of Santander, Colombia.

Ph.D. in Humanistic Research (University of Oviedo, Spain).

M.A. in Bioethics (El Bosque University, Colombia).

He is a Professor at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pamplona, Colombia, specialized in Kantian and Heideggerian philosophy and the relationship between technology and tragedy.

He is also responsible for the module of Epistemology (M.A. in Education, University Simón Bolívar).

He was Professor at University Simón Bolívar and the Free University of Colombia, teaching social anthropology, bioethics, technoscience, and hermeneutics.

Dr. Álvarez Gonzales is the author of papers such as “Analysis of the Structure and the Organization of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (laws) from the Reading of Arnold Pacey” (2017) and “Angst, Knowledge Principle of Possibility” (2016), among many others.

Juan Diego Hernández Albarracín, Universidad de Pamplona - Colombia Universidad Simón Bolívar – Cúcuta - Colombia j.hernandez@unisimonbolivar.edu.co

Social communicator at the University of Pamplona, Colombia.

M.A. in Philosophy (Industrial University of Santander, Bucaramanga) with a dissertation entitled Boredom and Modernity. A dialogue between philosophy and cinema in our current condition.

Ph.D. candidate in Educational Sciences (University Simón Bolívar, Barranquilla).

Head of Pedagogy and Professor of Epistemology and Research.

M.A. in Education and Administrative Law (University Simón Bolívar, Cúcuta).

Professor of Philosophy of Communication, Hermeneutics, and Ethnography since 2012 (University of Pamplona, Colombia).

He is the author of papers such as “Boredom and Poetry: Reviewing the Work of Alejandra Pizarnik since Martin Heidegger’s Understanding of Boredom (Langeweile)” (Revista Filosofía uis, 2012).

He is the editor of the book Contemporary Pedagogies: Diverging Glance at School (Simón Bolívar University Press, forthcoming).

Marc Pallarès Piquer, Universidad Jaime I de Castellón – Castellón de la Plana - España

Bachelor of Catalan Philology and Bachelor of Audiovisual Communication.

Doctor in Pedagogy and audiovisual communication from the University of Valencia Spain.

Full professor Jaime I University of Castellón in the areas of Theory and History of Education (Bachelor of Psychopedagogy), European Educational Systems (Degree of Teaching) and History of education (Degree of teaching).

Education in today's world (Teaching). Education and Communication (Teaching).

Among his research works are 42 research published in education and psychology journals indexed in JCR or SCOPUS and books Theory of education or theory education? The educational action from the media. Beyond the instrumental model in pedagogy. (2014). Benicarló: Onada Ediciones (ISBN: 978-84-15896-40-1 (It is a book used as a manual of teaching subjects, pedagogy and psychopedagogy in various universities); Theory and practice of educational action. (2014). Malaga: University of Malaga (ISBN-13: 978-84-16036-24-0) Book chapter; Looking for the way, media and active education: challenges for teachers on the horizon of 2020. (2013). Málaga: University of Malaga (ISBN-13: 978-84-15774-27-3) Book chapter; The Pedagogy of the Presence. (2016) Barcelona: Uoc and -The school that arrives (2018). Barcelona: Octahedron.

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