Ephemeroi - Human Vulnerability, Transhumanism, and the Meaning of Life



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
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