Origins and philosophical foundations of transhuman

The need for philosophy in science and utilizing philosophy in research works have been emphasized consistently by many experts. In recent decades, with the increasing growth of new technologies, the explanation of the relationship between these technologies and philosophy and the situation of philosophy in identifying these technologies have become vital. Transhumanism is a technological and futuristic movement its experts acknowledge their ideas to be the philosophical inheritors and revivers of the ideals of the Enlightenment. The present study aims to understand and analyze the philosophical origins and hotbeds of transhumanism in the context of humanism and the Enlightenment, as two significant intellectual-philosophical west currents, and perfectionism as a philosophical idea. Considering this origin, one can also find the philosophical foundations of transhumanism under humanistic ontology, pragmatist epistemology, and technological values; which are the basis of their attitude toward man and the enhancement of his nature.