Undergraduate thesis presents a critique of two opposing points of view related to the subject of cyborgs and cybernetics, respectively the techno-positive viewpoints advocated by philosophers such as Max More and the techno-conservative viewpoints advocated by philosophers such as Francis Fukuyama. Throughout my work, I address the topic of cyborgs through various philosophical, social, popular and practical contexts, and with practical examples I show the positive and negative sides of cybernetics and so-called cybernetic augmentations. I try to answer the question how does the appearance of such new posthuman beings affect today's society. Finally, I turn to the topic of cyborgetics, i.e. the main questions that cyborgetics must ask itself in terms of new regulations. Within the framework of the undergraduate thesis, various criticisms were presented in the field of labour market, sexuality and equality, and the main focus was on the question of whether we should use cyborg technology as an augmentation of already existing abilities or only as a means to eliminate »abnormalities«, treat diseases, etc. The main ideas for the assignment I aquired from booksEnhancing Evolution: The Ethical Case for Making Better People by John Harris andCybernetic Beings in the Age of Scientific Humanism by Ivana Greguric
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