Transhumanism as a Product of Man’s Creativity or the Deconstruction of Man as God’s Creation
Keywords:
transhumanism, God’s creation, Imago Dei, antihumanism, deconstruction of humanityAbstract
This paper, which is divided into three thematic units, attempts to confront Christian anthropology with transhumanist antipological settings and to evaluate them by comparing them with Christian anthropology (i.e. to evaluate them from the perspective of Christian anthropology) which sees man as the crown of creation and master and guardian of the created world (Gen 1: 28–29); also, Christain anthropology encourages man’s co–creative work through which man continues God’s work through procreation and by fulfilling the task of preserving and sustaining life on earth responsibly. The idea of transcending the limitations of the body — of overcoming human nature — gained special momentum as science and technology progressed, and today it is guided by transhumanist antropology. As a result of Cartesian subjectivism, matter, nature and the body are understood mechanistically, and later reductionistically, whereby the soul is materialized, while the body strives to transcend, to dematerialize. Transhumanist creation seeks to offer the realization of immortality, and in doing so, rejects dualistically the indestructible truth about man who is the unity of spirit and body: namely, there is no immortality for a body without a soul, just as there is no immortality for a soul without a body. Transhumanism started from modernist subjectivism and postmodern ethical nihilism, further developing through posthumanism as a transitional phase, has now evolved into antihumanism which — through the idea of «end of man» — leads to the deconstruction of God’s creation.
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