The Power of Passivity: The Challenge of Being Human in the Age of Technology
What does it mean to be human in a technologically enhanced world? The paper identifies six key challenges that must be considered when discussing the idea of humanity today. From these challenges emerge six key concepts: embeddedness, responsibility, normative vision, plurality, finitude, and the d...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Mohr Siebeck
2021
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Philosophy, theology and the sciences
Year: 2021, Volume: 8, Issue: 1, Pages: 5-28 |
RelBib Classification: | NBE Anthropology NCJ Ethics of science VA Philosophy |
Further subjects: | B
Embeddedness
B Finitude B Deep Passivity B Humanity B Existence B Normativity |
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Summary: | What does it mean to be human in a technologically enhanced world? The paper identifies six key challenges that must be considered when discussing the idea of humanity today. From these challenges emerge six key concepts: embeddedness, responsibility, normative vision, plurality, finitude, and the deep passivity of human existence. In debate with transhumanism I focus particularly on the last two because the importance of our finitude and passivity has dangerously been downplayed in recent years. |
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ISSN: | 2197-2834 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Philosophy, theology and the sciences
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1628/ptsc-2021-0003 |