Humanism And Embodiment
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Humanism And Embodiment
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Author : Susan E. Babbitt
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2014-08-14
Humanism And Embodiment written by Susan E. Babbitt and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-14 with Philosophy categories.
A live issue in anthropology and development studies, humanism is not typically addressed by analytic philosophers. Arguing for humanism as a view about truths, Humanism and Embodiment insists that disembodied reason, not religion, should be the target of secularists promoting freedom of enquiry and human community. Susan Babbitt's original study presents humanism as a meta-ethical view, paralleling naturalistic realism in recent analytic epistemology and philosophy of science. Considering the nature of knowledge, particularly the radical contingency of knowledge claims upon causal mechanisms, religious thinkers like Thomas Merton and Ivan Illich offer more scientific conceptions of practical deliberation than are offered by some non-religious ethicists. Drawing on philosophical sources such as Marxism, Buddhism and Christianity, this original study considers implications of an embodied conception of reason, revealing philosophical, practical and political implications.
Humanism And Embodiment
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Humanism And Embodiment written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Analysis (Philosophy) categories.
Embodiment And The Meaning Of Life
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Author : Jeff Noonan
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2018-03-21
Embodiment And The Meaning Of Life written by Jeff Noonan and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-21 with Philosophy categories.
The long tradition of pessimism in philosophy and poetry notoriously laments suffering caused by vulnerabilities of the human body. The most familiar and contemporary version is antinatalism, the view that it is wrong to bring sentient life into existence because birth inevitably produces suffering. Technotopianism, which stems from a similarly negative view of embodied limitations, claims that we should escape sickness and death through radical human-enhancement technologies. In Embodiment and the Meaning of Life Jeff Noonan presents pessimism and technotopianism as two sides of the same coin, as both begin from the premise that the limitations of embodied life are inherently negative. He argues that rather than rendering life pointless, the tragic failures that mark life are fundamental to the good of human existence. The necessary limitations of embodied being are challenges for each person to live well, not only for their own sake, but for the sake of the future of the human project. Meaning is not a given, Noonan suggests, but rather the product of labour upon ourselves, others, and the world. Meaningful labour is threatened equally by unjust social systems and runaway technological development that aims to replace human action, rather than liberate it. Calling on us to draw conceptual connections between finitude, embodiment, and the meaning of life, this book shows that seeking the common good is our most viable and materially realistic source of optimism about the future.
Geographies Of Embodiment
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Author : Kirsten Simonsen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Geographies Of Embodiment written by Kirsten Simonsen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with SOCIAL SCIENCE categories.
Geographies of Embodiment provides a critical discussion of the literatures on the body and embodiment, and humanism and post-humanism, and develops arguments about "otherness" and "encounter" which have become key ideas in urban studies, and studies of the city.
In Defence Of The Human Being
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Author : Thomas Fuchs
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021-09-23
In Defence Of The Human Being written by Thomas Fuchs and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-23 with Medical categories.
With the progress of artificial intelligence, the digitalization of the lifeworld, and the reduction of the mind to neuronal processes, the human being increasingly appears to be just a product of data and algorithms. That is, we conceive ourselves “in the image of our machines”, and conversely, we elevate our machines and our brains to new subjects. At the same time, demands for an enhancement of human nature culminate in transhumanist visions of taking human evolution to a new stage. Against this self-reification of the human being, this book defends a humanism of embodiment: our corporeality, vitality, embodied freedom are the foundations of a self-determined existence, which uses these new technologies only as a means, instead of letting them rule us. In Defence of the Human Being offers an array of interventions directed against a reductionist naturalism or transhumanism in various areas of science and society. As alternative it offers an embodied and enactive account of the human person: we are neither pure minds nor brains, but primarily embodied, living beings in relation with others. Fuchs applied this concept to issues such as artificial intelligence, transhumanism and enhancement, virtual reality, neuroscience, embodied freedom, psychiatry, and finally to the accelerating dynamics of current society which lead to an increasing disembodiment of our everyday conduct of life. Cutting across neuroscience, philosophy, and psychiatry, this important new book applies cutting-edge concepts of embodiment and enactivism to the current scientific, technological and cultural tendencies that will crucially influence our society's development in the 21st century.
Embodied Humanism
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Author : Jeff Noonan
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2022-08-16
Embodied Humanism written by Jeff Noonan and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-16 with Philosophy categories.
Jeff Noonan traces the development of humanist values from the ancient philosophies of India, China, and Greece, to contemporary struggles against oppression. Embodied Humanism argues that humanism is a critical social philosophy in which need-satisfaction and life-enjoyment have always been paramount.
Communism The Real Embodiment Of Humanism
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Author : Vladislav Zhanovich Kelle
language : en
Publisher: [Moscow] : Novosti Press Agency Publishing House
Release Date : 1965
Communism The Real Embodiment Of Humanism written by Vladislav Zhanovich Kelle and has been published by [Moscow] : Novosti Press Agency Publishing House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with Communism categories.
Understanding Humanism
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Author : Andrew Copson
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-09-30
Understanding Humanism written by Andrew Copson and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-30 with Philosophy categories.
Understanding Humanism is an easy-to-read and informative overview of the beliefs, practices, and values of humanism as a non-religious worldview. This short and lively book explores humanism both as a broad historical tradition of thought and as a stance embodied in organised institutions. It sets out clearly and systematically the beliefs and values of humanism as well as the reality and personal experience of living as a humanist today. Questions discussed in this book include: How do humanists see the relation between science and religious belief? Is humanism wedded to science as the only valid form of knowledge? What value do humanists place on the arts, and can they value religious art? Does the emphasis on human responsibility depend on an untenable belief in 'free will', and is this undermined by psychology and neuroscience? Do humanists think that life is sacred? What account would humanists give of the basis of human rights, and why they are important? Does humanism entail that human life is meaningless and pointless? Can humanists meet the challenge of nihilism? Understanding Humanism provides a reliable and easily digestible introduction to the field. By exploring these questions and inviting readers to engage with the arguments, it serves as the ideal textbook for those approaching the topic of humanism for the first time.
Embodied Humanism Toward Solidarity And Sensuous Enjoyment
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Author : Jeff Noonan
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2022-09-15
Embodied Humanism Toward Solidarity And Sensuous Enjoyment written by Jeff Noonan and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-15 with Philosophy categories.
Jeff Noonan traces the development of humanist values from the ancient philosophies of India, China, and Greece, to contemporary struggles against oppression. Embodied Humanism argues that humanism is a critical social philosophy in which need-satisfaction and life-enjoyment have always been paramount.
Posthuman Ethics
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Author : Patricia MacCormack
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-08
Posthuman Ethics written by Patricia MacCormack and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-08 with Social Science categories.
Posthuman theory asks in various ways what it means to be human in a time when philosophy has become suspicious of claims about human subjectivity. Those subjects who were historically considered aberrant, and our future lives becoming increasingly hybrid show we have always been and are continuously transforming into posthumans. What are the ethical considerations of thinking the posthuman? Posthuman Ethics asks not what the posthuman is, but how posthuman theory creates new, imaginative ways of understanding relations between lives. Ethics is a practice of activist, adaptive and creative interaction which avoids claims of overarching moral structures. Inherent in thinking posthuman ethics is the status of bodies as the site of lives inextricable from philosophy, thought, experiments in being and fantasies of the future. Posthuman Ethics explores certain kinds of bodies to think new relations that offer liberty and a contemplation of the practices of power which have been exerted upon bodies. The tattooed and modified body, the body made ecstatic through art, the body of the animal as a strategy for abolitionist animal rights, the monstrous body from teratology to fabulations, queer bodies becoming angelic, the bodies of the nation of the dead and the radical ways in which we might contemplate human extinction are the bodies which populate this book creating joyous political tactics toward posthuman ethics.