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Transhumanism as a challenge for ethics and religion / edited by Robert Petkovšek and Bojan Žalec.
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Language
English
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Zürich : Lit Verlag, 2021.
©2021
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232 pages ; 24 cm.
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B842.5 .T736 2021
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Transhumanism
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Moral and ethical aspects
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Transhumanism
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Religious aspects
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Editor
Petkovšek, Robert, 1965-
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Žalec, Bojan, 1966-
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Series
Theologie Ost-West ; Bd. 27.
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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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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.
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3643912978 ((paperback))
9783643912978 ((paperback))
OCLC
1265084923
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