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categories: ["people", "foundations"]categories: ["people", "foundations"]tags: ["transhumanism", "movements", "history", "enhancement", "ideology", "bioethics"]tags: ["transhumanism", "movements", "history", "enhancement", "ideology", "bioethics"]summary: "The intellectual and cultural movement holding that human beings can and should use technology to overcome the biological limits of the human condition."summary: "The intellectual and cultural movement holding that human beings can and should use technology to overcome the biological limits of the human condition."updated: "2026-07-27"updated: "2026-08-23"issues: ["Membership figures are characterised qualitatively and carry no source."]issues: ["Membership figures are characterised qualitatively and carry no source."]------ lines 30–35 → 30–3916 unchanged lines not shown
## Precursors## Precursors The word is older than the movement and older than its twentieth-century users. Dante's *Paradiso* coins *trasumanar* for the passage beyond the human, and nineteenth-century English translators rendered it as "transhumanise". Modern usage does not descend from that line, and the coincidence has produced a good deal of retrospective genealogy.The word is older than the movement and older than its twentieth-century users. Dante's *Paradiso* coins *trasumanar* for the passage beyond the human, and nineteenth-century English translators rendered it as "transhumanise". Modern usage does not descend from that line, and the coincidence has produced a good deal of retrospective genealogy. ```figure{"key": "julian-huxley-portrait", "caption": "Julian Huxley, who gave 'transhumanism' its modern currency in 1957, under a portrait of his grandfather T. H. Huxley, 'Darwin's bulldog' — the evolutionary lineage and the contested eugenic one, in a single frame."}``` Julian Huxley used the word in a 1957 essay to name the idea of humanity consciously fulfilling its own potential, "man remaining man, but transcending himself".[^huxley1957] Huxley was a biologist and a eugenicist, and the movement's later critics have made much of that lineage; its defenders point out that Huxley's meaning was cultural and educational rather than genetic.Julian Huxley used the word in a 1957 essay to name the idea of humanity consciously fulfilling its own potential, "man remaining man, but transcending himself".[^huxley1957] Huxley was a biologist and a eugenicist, and the movement's later critics have made much of that lineage; its defenders point out that Huxley's meaning was cultural and educational rather than genetic. removed, struck through added, underlinedLine numbers count the serialised markdown of each revision, frontmatter included.
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