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Transhumanism As A Secularist Faith by Hava Tirosh‐Samuelson is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Transhumanism As A Secularist Faith about?
**__Abstract__** In the second half of the twentieth century, humanism— namely, the worldview that underpinned Western thought for several centuries—has been severely critiqued by philosophers who highlighted its theoretical and ethical limitations. Inspired by the emergence of cybernetics and new technologies such as robotics, prosthetics, communications, artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology, there has been a desire to articulate a new worldview that will fit the posthuman condition. Posthumanism is a description of a new form of human existence in which the boundaries between humans and nature and humans and machines are blurred, as well as a prescription for an ideal situation in which the limitations of human biology are transcended, replaced by machines. The transition from the human condition to the posthuman condition will be facilitated by transhumanism, the project of human enhancement that will ultimately yield the transformation of the human species from the human to the posthuman. As an intellectual movement, transhumanism is still very small, but transhumanist ideas exert deep and broad influence on contemporary culture and society. This ess
Who reads Transhumanism As A Secularist Faith?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Arts and Humanities.
- Author
- Hava Tirosh‐Samuelson
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)