Filozofska istraživanja, Vol. 40 No. 2, 2020.
Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.21464/fi40203
Postmortal Condition: Metaphysical-Eschatological Ambitions of Transhumanism
Odilon-Gbènoukpo Singbo
orcid.org/0000-0002-2154-8935
; Hrvatsko katoličko sveučilište, Ilica 242, HR–10000 Zagreb
Abstract
The paper analyses various metaphysical and eschatological implications of transhumanism, especially in the light of its idea of the immortality of the human species. Through a concise interpretation of the historical framework of the emergence of the transhumanist movement, the paper highlights its main features such as human improvement, overcoming human nature, and overcoming inherent human deficiencies using modern scientific disciplines and modern technologies. Those features help understand metaphysics and eschatology as formed by some aspects of transhumanism. These aspects are unquestionably technological and secular in their principles, as they distance themselves from the religious understanding of human longing and death. Often, death is understood as a mistake, while the process of ageing is seen as a pathological, humiliating but curable condition. Transhumanism thus marks the end of the humantranscendental perspective of a free individual, created by the goodness of God and saved by the love of God, through the mystery of Jesus Christ. The paper argues that technocratic solutions cannot fulfil fundamental human longings.
Keywords
postmortal condition; transhumanism; metaphysics; eschatology; technics; technology; immortality; enhancement; religion
Hrčak ID:
245086
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Publication date:
17.8.2020.
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