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

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English
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  • Zürich : Lit Verlag, 2021.
  • ©2021
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232 pages ; 24 cm.

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    • Theologie Ost-West ; Bd. 27. [More in this series]
    • Theology East-West: European perspectives = Theologie Ost-West: Europäische Perspektiven ; Volume 27.
    Summary note
    "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
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    Includes bibliographical references.
    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.
    ISBN
    • 3643912978 ((paperback))
    • 9783643912978 ((paperback))
    OCLC
    1265084923
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