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Ausgabe:

März/2021

Spalte:

123-146

Kategorie:

Philosophie, Religionsphilosophie

Autor/Hrsg.:

Hava Tirosh-Samuelson

Titel/Untertitel:

The Paradoxes of Transhumanism

Technological Spirituality or Techno-Idolatry?

I Transhumanist Futurism: A Brief Overview



Transhumanism is a broadly defined and loosely organized intellectual and cultural movement that envisions the transformation of the human condition by means of science and technology.1 With no codified belief or agreed upon agenda, transhumanism is a cluster of views based on the assumption that human beings are in the state of transition, that change is desirable, and that it will happen through technoscientific means. Transhumanism has different flavors including anarchist, libertarian, democratic, hedonistic, apocalyptic and eschatological, but all of them express profound techno-optimism. Numerically, transhumanism is still a very small movement – the number of self-declared transhumanists ...


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