Hauskeller, Michael ORCID: 0000-0002-4452-4813
(2019)
Ephemeroi - Human Vulnerability, Transhumanism, and the Meaning of Life.
SCIENTIA ET FIDES, 7 (2).
pp. 9-21.
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Abstract
In this article I try to understand transhumanism from the phenomenological perspective of lived experience. Asking what it is like to be a transhumanist, I first interpret the transhumanist agenda of using technology to overcome the human condition as a reaction to the experience of our human weakness, vulnerability, and mortality, and then sketch an alternative positive account of human vulnerability, which connects precisely those experiences to what makes human life valuable and meaningful.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | existential vulnerability, mortality, phenomenology, meaning in life, transhumanism, radical human enhancement |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
Date Deposited: | 09 Sep 2019 07:42 |
Last Modified: | 19 Jan 2023 00:27 |
DOI: | 10.12775/SetF.2019.013 |
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URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3053955 |