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Human flourishing in a technological world : a theological perspective / edited by Jens Zimmermann.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religious ethics.
- Human beings--Conduct of life.
- Human beings.
- Technology--Social aspects--Philosophy.
- Technology.
- Technology--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (294 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- 'Human Flourishing in a Technological World' addresses fundamental questions about human identity and flourishing in the light of recent technological advances. It includes the text of a lecutre by virtual reality engineer and computer scientist Jaron Lanier, and a discussion between Lanier and other contributors.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Halftitle page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I: Confronting the Techno-Vision Historical and Philosophical Analysis
- 1. From Living Souls to Software Selves: The Movements of Enchantment through Western Metaphysics
- The Narrative Trope: The Lure of Self-Enchantment
- The Hellenist Cosmos
- The Judeo-Christian Difference: Enchantment Lite
- The Collapse of the Ontotheological Synthesis
- The Late Medieval Theological Debates and the Demise of the Thomist Synthesis
- The Rise of Mechanistic Science: Disenchantment Standardized
- A World Formatted for Manipulation
- Descartes' Dualism_ The Evaporation of the Life-World
- Transforming Mechanics into Information: Re-enchanting Reality by Mind-Upload
- 2. Oh, That We Might Learn to See Everything Differently: Interrogating a Baconian Spirit, Confessing (In)humanity
- Confessing Peddlers and Propaganda, Potentialities and Politics: A Cult of Youth, a Cooperative Marketplace, and a Call to Action
- Confessing Transhumanist Aspirations Conformed to a Baconian Spirit: Pursuing Control and Choice toward Extinction
- Confessing Inhumanity: Nothing to Lose and Nothing New to See Here, Folks! Technology, Sin, and Disorientation
- That We Might Learn to See Everything Differently: Follow Me
- 3. Personhood and Technology
- Hermeneutic Frameworks
- Imago Dei and the Mystery of the Person
- Examples of Depersonalizing Techno-Vision
- 4. The Icon and the Idol: A Christian Perspective on Sociable Robots
- Robots, Functional Masks, and Relational Persons
- God, the Created World, and the Person
- The Person, the Artifact, and the Robot
- The Robot as Extending the Personal
- Conclusions.
- 5. Becoming Human in a Technological World
- Witnessing Life
- Beyond the Human?
- 6. Remaining Focused: Human Flourishing and the Mundane in the Emergent Technoculture
- Human Flourishing
- The Necessity of the Ordinary
- The Allure of the Extraordinary
- Distraction
- Part II: Practical Implications of Technology for Human Flourishing
- 7. The Evolution of Wisdom in a Technological World: An Exploration in Nature and Grace
- The Ends of Technology
- Theology and Ethics of Wisdom
- Nature and Grace
- Case Study: De-Extinction
- Conclusions
- 8. Transhumanism, Embodied Cognition, and Psychiatry Thomas Fuchs
- Mind-Uploading
- Critique of Functionalism
- Critique of Neuroreductionism
- Psychiatry between Psyche and Brain
- Against Reductionism
- Psychiatry as Relational Medicine: An Integrative Concept
- Conclusion
- 9. Leisure in a Technological World
- Work as Self-Identification
- Recovering Leisure in a Technological World of Work
- The Three Elements of Genuine Leisure
- Friendship, Technology, and Human Flourishing
- 10. Education, Enhancement, and the Pursuit of the Good
- Treatment and Enhancement
- Education
- Education and Technology
- 11. Human Flourishing, Disability, and Technology
- Relationality and Flourishing
- Disability and the Historical Breakdown of Relationality in the Church
- Limits and Limitedness: What It Means to Be Human
- Technology, Disability, and Human Flourishing
- 12. Living in the Midst of Death: Theological and Philosophical Reflections on Aging and Identity
- Bonhoeffer's Theological Anthropology
- Jean Améry's Phenomenology of Aging
- 13. Death and Glory in a Technological World
- Death and Glory for Techno-Scientific People.
- Death and Glory for Secular Humanism
- Death and Glory for Transhumanism
- Death and Glory for Christians
- Part III: Demystifying AI: Toward the Dignified Use of Modern Technology
- 14. Personhood and Human Flourishing in a Technological World
- Origins of the Message
- The Goal of the Message
- A More Dignifying Use of Technology
- 15. Personhood, Consciousness, and Technology: A Dialogue with Jaron Lanier
- Bibliography
- Index of Biblical Citations
- Name Index
- Subject Index.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2023.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 14, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Zimmermann, Jens Human Flourishing in a Technological World
- ISBN:
- 9780191926624
- 0191926620
- 9780192657817
- 019265781X
- 9780192657824
- 0192657828
- OCLC:
- 1393440498
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