The Struggle for Cognitive Liberty: Retrofitting the Self in Activist Theology
Human freedom is best understood as self-determination. Free action consists of deliberation, decision, and action. The free human person deserves dignity, that is, we each deserve to be treated as a moral end and not merely as a means to someone else's end. Neurocentrist philosophy-a form of e...
| Published in: | Theology and science |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge
[2020]
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Theology and science
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| RelBib Classification: | CF Christianity and Science FD Contextual theology NBE Anthropology ZD Psychology |
| Further subjects: | B
eliminative materialism
B cognitive liberty B Liberation Theology B Activism B Consciousness B Alan Weissenbacher B Self B Political Theology B Freedom B Dignity B neurocentrism B Public Theology B dignitarian counterpolitics B freedom-denial |
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| Summary: | Human freedom is best understood as self-determination. Free action consists of deliberation, decision, and action. The free human person deserves dignity, that is, we each deserve to be treated as a moral end and not merely as a means to someone else's end. Neurocentrist philosophy-a form of eliminative materialism-based on neuroscience, however, threatens the extinction of the human self and, thereby, threatens to turn our experience of freedom and dignity into a mere delusion. This evacuates the moral agenda of every activist liberation theology. One task of today's public theologian is to protect Cognitive Liberty, because it conceptually undergirds political, economic, and social liberation. |
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| ISSN: | 1474-6719 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology and science
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/14746700.2020.1786219 |