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Technologies of the future self = an ethics for transhuman flourishing /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Technologies of the future self/ edited by Georg Theiner, Alcibiades Malapi-Nelson.
Reminder of title:	an ethics for transhuman flourishing /
other author:	Theiner, Georg.
Published:	Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland : : 2025.,
Description:	xxi, 368 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Transhumanism - Moral and ethical aspects. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-99902-4
ISBN:	9783031999024

Technologies of the future self = an ethics for transhuman flourishing /
Technologies of the future selfan ethics for transhuman flourishing /[electronic resource] :edited by Georg Theiner, Alcibiades Malapi-Nelson. - Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025. - xxi, 368 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Palgrave studies in the future of humanity and its successors,2945-6606. - Palgrave studies in the future of humanity and its successors..

1. Introduction: Who's Afraid of Transhuman Flourishing? -- Part I. Transhumanism and Human Flourishing -- 2. Human Flourishing Requires Transhumanist Flourishing -- 3. Is Transhumanism Necessarily Utilitarian? Recasting Alternative Ethical Systems towards a Future Human Flourishing -- 4. An Aristotelian Typology and Evaluation of Transhumanism: Concordance and Conflict -- 5. Revolution And Transformation: Vygotsky, Eudaimonia, and the Social Essence of (Trans)Human Development -- 6. In Search of the Human Style: Is Homo Sapiens a Crime against the Concept of Humanity? -- 7. Euro-Transhumanism -- 8. Beyond Theory: A Mythical Journey towards Posthumanist Ethix -- Part II. Transhumanism and Christian Philosophy -- 9. Transhumanism as a Secular Vision of Christian Ethics -- 10. Christian Transhumanism: Furthering the Redemptive Purposes of Christ -- 11. Our Future Self: Cyber Enhancement and Spiritual Transformation -- 12. Christianity for Transhumanists: A View from Eastern Orthodoxy -- 13. On Becoming Better: Some Ethical Questions from a Feminist Christian Theological Perspective -- 14. Teilhard de Chardin on Technology and Human Evolution: Why AI Needs Mysticism.

This volume is the first to articulate ethical foundations of transhumanism from perspectives focused on transhuman flourishing, as opposed to utilitarian or deontological approaches. Transhumanism is typically framed as a quest for "transcending biological limitations" and "unlocking human potential"-and thus perceived to be at odds with ethical conceptions of a "good life" that are substantively defined in terms of "human nature." However, the concept of "human nature" is not a biological given but deeply bound up with metaphysical conceptions about what (trans)human futures are possible, desirable, and good. It invites ethical reflection on who we are, the value of embodiment and community to (trans)human existence, and who we might hope to become. The contributions collected in this volume offer a wide spectrum of visions for shaping the techno-progressive agenda of transhumanism in ethically grounded and socially responsible ways. Georg Theiner is Associate Professor in Philosophy at Villanova University, USA. Alcibiades Malapi-Nelson teaches Philosophy and Humanities at the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences at Humber Polytechnic, in Toronto, Canada.

ISBN: 9783031999024

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-99902-4doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1502866
Transhumanism
--Moral and ethical aspects.

LC Class. No.: B842.5

Dewey Class. No.: 144

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