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Living on This Earth as in Heaven: Time and the Ecological Conversion of Eschatology
Abstract Eschatological and apocalyptic patterns of thought are today prominent in environmental discourse, across multiple disciplines and media. Yet some theologians criticise these thought patterns for their role in perpetuating and even causing the environmental degradation we now witness. This article argues that the construal of salvation and the
Gunnar Gjermundsen
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The ethics of transhumanism as the quintessence of hedonistic ideas [PDF]
Introduction. The article is devoted to the ethics of transhumanism as a philosophical trend that elevates hedonistic values to the main principle of human existence.
Kraynov, Andrey Leonidovich
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Ethical and Christian view on Human Nature in Bioethics of Transhumanism
The article is focused on human nature from view of ethical and Christian consequences resulting from bioethical research in the field of transhumanism. The aim is to examine impact of these researches on human nature within Christian dogmatics which may
Michal Gánovský
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The Birth of the Idea of Perfectibility: From the Enlightenment to Transhumanism [PDF]
Starting from the Age of Enlightenment, a person’s ability of self-improvement, or perfectibility, is usually seen as a fundamental human feature. However, this term, introduced into the philosophical vocabulary by J.-J.
Ugleva, Anastasia, Vinogradova, Olga
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Introduction (to Dossier on Walter Benjamin and Education) [PDF]
Although it is well known that Walter Benjamin played a leading role in the antebellum German Youth Movement, withdrawing from the presidency of the Berlin Independent Students Association and from other reformist activities only with the onset of World ...
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Abstract In the last twenty‐five years scientific research on embodied cognition and related discussions in the philosophy of technology and science have led to two groundbreaking insights: 1. Perceptions, memories, meanings, and volitions are neither located in the brain nor reducible to intentional acts of ‘autonomous subjects’. 2. Human intelligence
Johannes Hoff
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One of humankinds oldest quests has been to find the ‘elixir of life’, a mythical potion that, would grant the drinker immortality (and preferably, eternal youth!).
Callaghan, Vic
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Zarathustra and Transhumanism: Man is Something to Be Overcome
In Sorgner's 2009 paper "Nietzsche, the Overhuman, and Transhumanism", he argues, contra Bostrom, that the transhumanist movement's postman is fundamentally similar to Nietzsche's overman. In this paper, Sorgner's thesis is challenged.
Joshua Merlo
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Bioethics: Reincarnation of Natural Philosophy in Modern Science [PDF]
The theory of evolution of complex and comprising of human systems and algorithm for its constructing are the synthesis of evolutionary epistemology, philosophical anthropology and concrete scientific empirical basis in ...
Cheshko, Valentin Teodorovich +2 more
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