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

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 weakn...

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Autor: Hauskeller, M. (Michael)|||/items/451a300e-5ad0-4248-9bab-b175d953bfa0
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Navarra
Repositorio:Dadun. Depósito Académico Digital de la Universidad de Navarra
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:dadun.unav.edu:10171/58290
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10171/58290
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:existential vulnerability
mortality
phenomenology
meaning in life
transhumanism
radical human enhancement
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Sumario: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.