Technologizing transcendence: A critique of transhumanism

H Tirosh-Samuelson - Religion and human enhancement: Death, values …, 2017 - Springer
We live in interesting, uncertain, and confusing times in which the human species is subject
to massive technologization. New scientific advances and the emergence of new …

[PDF][PDF] The compatibility of religious and transhumanist views of metaphysics, suffering, virtue and transcendence in an enhanced future

J Hughes - director, 2007 - researchgate.net
Transhumanism–the proposition that human beings should use technology to transcend the
limitations of the body and brain–is a product of the Enlightenment humanist tradition. As a …

[PDF][PDF] Religion and the Technowonderland of Transhumanism

LE Cady - Building better humans? Refocusing the debate on …, 2012 - newsfollowup.com
Transhumanism is a slippery term. It was originally coined in the mid-twentieth century by
Julian Huxley to capture the evolutionary possibilities of the human (Tirosh-Samuelson; see …

Posthumanism and transhumanism

R Cole‐Turner - Encyclopedia of Religious Ethics, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Posthumanism and transhumanism emerge in the early twenty‐first century in response to
the humanism of the modern Western Enlightenment. Posthumanism criticizes humanism's …

[PDF][PDF] Religion and transhumanism: Introducing a conversation

H Campbell, M Walker - Journal of Evolution and Technology, 2005 - Citeseer
In broadest terms, transhumanism is the view that humans should (or should be permitted to)
use technology to remake human nature (Bostrom, 2001, Walker, 2002b). It is believed that …

Saved through technology: Exploring the soteriology and eschatology of transhumanism

M Leidenhag - Religion Compass, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
According to the intellectual and cultural movement of transhumanism, human beings are in
the early stages of development, and it encourages the use of modern science to radically …

Critical transhumanism as a religious ethic of otherness

SA Benko, A Hruby - MERCER, C.; TROTHEN, TJ Religion and …, 2015 - torrossa.com
When one is thinking about God, one is thinking about how one ought to relate to another.
The ethical concerns of transhumanism include the just distribution of technologies of …

The religion of technology: Transhumanism and the myth of progress

MS Burdett - Religion and transhumanism: The unknown future of …, 2015 - torrossa.com
Mary Midgley writes in her book, The Myths We Live By, that “We are accustomed to think of
myths as the opposite of science. But in fact they are a central part of it: the part that decides …

Aesthetics: bringing the arts & design into the discussion of transhumanism

N Vita‐More - … reader: Classical and contemporary essays on …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The emergent course of technology is at once explicable and baffling. It has precipitated
questions about a shifting human paradigm that remain unanswered by postmodernism …

[PDF][PDF] Transcending the animal: How transhumanism and religion are and are not alike

PD Hopkins - Journal of Evolution and Technology, 2005 - Citeseer
In this paper I lay out a basic framework for relating religion and transhumanism. I argue that
both religion and transhumanism begin conceptually as reactions to a particular deflationary …