Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.31192/np.20.2.15
For or Against Transhumanism? Attitudes and Predictors of Transhumanist Theory and Practice Among Students of the City of Zagreb
Ivana Brstilo Lovrić
orcid.org/0000-0003-0969-7409
; Catholic University of Croatia, Department of Sociology, Zagreb, Croatia
Paula Zujić
orcid.org/0000-0001-5638-1832
Abstract
Transhumanism characterizes the understanding of human nature as dynamic and flexible and therefore receptive to various improvements within technoscientific system. In this paper, transhumanism is empirically researched through attitudes and predictors among students of the city of Zagreb (N=218). Although most respondents were not transhumanist, some of them affirmed its characteristic conceptions of the human body and consciousness, expressing openness to various bodily improvements. The most important predictor of student acceptance of transhumanism was religiosity with the acceptance of new technologies and worldview, which is why transhumanism was profiled as a secular, technological and liberal phenomenon. The contribution of this paper is in actualizing a topic on which there are not many empirical insights in Croatian society by mapping the lifestyle of supporters and opponents of transhumanism not only on a theoretical but also practical level, thus moving from science fiction to everyday life and indicating a modest, yet present, student inclination to the perspective of the transhumanism whose social implications have yet to be addressed.
Keywords
body; Croatia; students; technology; transhumanism
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280532
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Publication date:
15.7.2022.
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