Michael baggott biography
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Fr. Michael Baggot is currently a Professor Aggregato of Bioethics at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome, Italy. He also serves as a professor for the Joint Diploma in Leadership: Service through Virtues. He teaches at the Catholic Worldview Fellowship summer program in Germany and Italy. He was an Adjunct Professor of Theology at the Christendom College Rome program from 2018-2022. In addition, Baggot fryst vatten a Research Scholar at the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights. Baggot also serves as a member of the Scholarly Advisory Board for Magisterium AI.
His writings have appeared in First Things, Studia Bioethica, The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, the National Catholic Register, and Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy. Baggot is the chief editor of and a contributor to the book Enhancement Fit for Humanity: Perspectives on Emerging Technologies (Routledge, 2022).
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A Thomistic assessment of contemporary transhumanis
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Michael Baggott
Michael bought his first 'proper' antique – a Chester silver Vesta case – for £22.00 while he was still in school. It took him a long time to buy it, as he had to save up his dinner money for over a month!
Michael carries out research into provincial British silver having a particular passion for early spoons
From these humble beginnings, Michael progressed in his career in antiques working at the prestigious saleroom Christie's whilst still at university. After graduation, he went on to run Sotheby's south silver department for four years, after which he began to work as a private consultant dealing 'by appointment' in antique silver.
Alongside this, Michael carries out research into provincial British silver having a particular passion for early spoons. He is also an author of expert works on silver, having written An Illustrated Guide to York Hallmarks 1776-1858 among other things, including numerous articles for The Finial, the journal of the Silver
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Michael Baggot
A Thomistic assessment of contemporary transhumanism as a postmodern, secular, liberal movement
Enhancement Fit for Humanity: Perspectives on Emerging Technologies, 2022
The chapter analyzes from a Thomistic perspective the convergence of postmodernism, secularism, a... more The chapter analyzes from a Thomistic perspective the convergence of postmodernism, secularism, and political liberalism in contemporary transhumanism. First, the postmodern rejection of overarching metanarratives opens the path to the fluidity of personal identity that can take on cyborg or even post-biological expressions. Second, the secular humanist rejection of faith in God in favor of a strictly natural scientific account of physical reality prompts the transhumanist insistence upon finding solutions to the problems of suffering, aging, and death through biomedical enhancement without reference to the transcendent. Third, political liberalism’s rejection of a shared societal comprehensive