Transhumanism as a challenge for ethics and religion / edited by Robert Petkovšek and Bojan Žalec.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Petkovšek, Robert, 1965- editor.

Žalec, Bojan, 1966- editor.

Series:

Theologie Ost-West ; Bd. 27.

Theology East-West: European perspectives = Theologie Ost-West: Europäische Perspektiven ; Volume 27.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transhumanism--Moral and ethical aspects.

Transhumanism.

Transhumanism--Religious aspects.

Physical Description:

232 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Zürich : Lit Verlag, 2021.

Summary:

"The crucial question of our time is: How to preserve humanity, humanitas, in a world of radical and not so long ago practically unimaginable technological possibilities? The book addresses this issue through its treatment of transhumanism, a diverse movement the representatives of which promise and advocate for the enhancement of human being through modern science, technology, and pharmacology. Their views differ in the degree of extremity, and they contain many ambiguities, as well as pitfalls and dangers that require an answer from both ethical and religious points of view. The book deepens the understanding of transhumanism in an interdisciplinary way and thus helps to form the right attitude towards it that will truly benefit human flourishing. It offers a rich variety of views on transhumanism, ranging from its illumination in the light of contemporary research into happiness, through liberal eugenics and biopolitics, all the way to its considerations in terms of religions and manifestations in concrete works of art"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Enhancing human happiness: Psychological, neurobiological and ethical perspectives / Wlater Schaupp

Ethics of vulnerability in the age of human biotechnological enhancement / Roman Globokar

Virtues and transhumanist human enhancement / Vojko Stahovnik

Normative implications of the idea of 'fluid corporeality' in the digital age / Anto Čartolovni, Odilon-Gb̈noukpo Singbo

Liberal eugenics as a destroyer of moral agents: Habermas' critique / Bojan }alec

Can transhumanism elevate humanity? The questions we face today / Zdravko Perić; Marin Petković

Action competence, technology, and responsibilty / Arto Mutanen

Genetic engineering: Designer babies - illusion or reality? / Uraka Fele

What cyborgization of the human body brings: Conceptual analysis, distinctions and clarifications / Stjepan `tivić

The imaginary, the symbolic and the body: A psychoanalytic perspective on human enhancement / Thomas Diesner

Transhumanist and Christian view on completion of human nature / Ivan Platovnjak, Tone Svetelj

Transhumanism as a challenge for the Christian theological understanding of "imago dei" / Michal Valčo

The question of personal identity in time of transhumanism / Anton Jamnik

From acceptance to self-acceptance and self-transformation / Tomaž Erzar, Katarina Kompan Erzar

I'm already - like God! Transhumanism and Christian anthropology / Tadej Stegu

Human condition and its limits - The wordless world of technology / G̉bor Kov̉cs

Brain, mind and technology in the critique of modernity in the mirror of Hungarian pessimist utopias in the interwar period / B̌la Mester

Transcending geographical and cultural borders: Image of the "other" in the earliest Rus' travel diary on the background of Catholic-East Orthodox relations / Simon Malmenvell

Resignation as the foundation of life / Mari Jo~e Osredkar

Real greatness. Enhancing essence of Christianity in individual and social life / Marcin Godawa

The motif of God' mountain and transhumanism in the biblical perspective / Grzegorz Szamocki

The Bible and transhumanism: Lessons from the tower of Babel (Genesis 11.1-9) / Beneamin Mocan

Life-extension, Christian hope, and human flourishing. A brief exploration of consonance and conflict between transhumanism and Christian theology / Ciprian Gheorghe-Luca

Selected aspects of biopolitics in the case of Kaesong industrial complex / Rafał Smoczyński.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783643912978

3643912978

OCLC:

1265084923

Publisher Number:

99989606820