Perfective and Technocratic Enhancement: An Aristotelian–Thomistic Inquiry Into Contemporary Bioethical Challenges

enhancement, which seeks to transcend it. This perspective enables a reframing of the paradigm of statins, integrating biomedical data, metaphysical realism, and a rational theory of medicine to argue that true human flourishing requires fidelity to the limits inscribed in nature. Ultimately, the central question addressed herein concerns the moral licitness of enhancement, which is permissible only insofar as it is ordered toward the perfection of the human being, not its indiscriminate transformation.