Personhood Beyond Humanism
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Personhood Beyond Humanism
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Author : Tomasz Pietrzykowski
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-05-31
Personhood Beyond Humanism written by Tomasz Pietrzykowski and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-31 with Law categories.
This book explores the legal conception of personhood in the context of contemporary challenges, such as the status of non-human animals, human-animal biological mixtures, cyborgisation of the human body, or developing technologies based on artificial autonomic agents. It reveals the humanistic assumptions underlying the legal approach to personhood and examines the extent to which they are undermined by current and imminent scientific and technological advances. Further, the book outlines an original conception of non-personal subjecthood so as to provide adequate normative solutions for the problematic status of sentient animals and other kinds of entities. Arguably, non-personal subjects of law should be regarded as holding one right, and only one right - the right to be taken into account.
Beyond Humanism
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Author : Charles Hartshorne
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2017-09-15
Beyond Humanism written by Charles Hartshorne and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-15 with Philosophy categories.
In the three decades since it was first published, Charles Hartshorne's Beyond Humanism has come to be regarded as a classic in the study of humanism and nature. The volume includes: Part One: HUMANISM AND HUMAN NEEDS -God or Nature -Humanism as Disintegration -Dewey's Philosophy of Religion -Other Humanist Philosophies -Russia and Marxian Humanism -Freud's View of Religion -Historic Forms of Humanism Part Two: NATURE -The Cosmic Variables -Order in a Creative Universe -Indeterminism in Psychology and Ethics -Mind and Matter -Mind and Body: Organic Sympathy -Russell on Causality -Santayana on Matter -Mead and Alexander on Time -Logical Positivism and the Method of Philosophy -Croce, Heidegger, and Hartmann -Conclusion: The Historic Role of Humanism
Beyond Humanism
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Author : B. Nooteboom
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2012-04-17
Beyond Humanism written by B. Nooteboom and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-17 with Philosophy categories.
This book seeks to set humanism on a new footing. No longer Enlightenment intuitions of an autonomous, disconnected, and rational self but a philosophy oriented towards the relationship between self and other. With this, it seeks to provide an escape from present egotism and narcissism in society. It discusses altruism as well as its limitations.
What Is Posthumanism
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Author : Cary Wolfe
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2013-11-30
What Is Posthumanism written by Cary Wolfe and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-30 with Philosophy categories.
What does it mean to think beyond humanism? Is it possible to craft a mode of philosophy, ethics, and interpretation that rejects the classic humanist divisions of self and other, mind and body, society and nature, human and animal, organic and technological? Can a new kind of humanities—posthumanities—respond to the redefinition of humanity’s place in the world by both the technological and the biological or “green” continuum in which the “human” is but one life form among many? Exploring how both critical thought along with cultural practice have reacted to this radical repositioning, Cary Wolfe—one of the founding figures in the field of animal studies and posthumanist theory—ranges across bioethics, cognitive science, animal ethics, gender, and disability to develop a theoretical and philosophical approach responsive to our changing understanding of ourselves and our world. Then, in performing posthumanist readings of such diverse works as Temple Grandin’s writings, Wallace Stevens’s poetry, Lars von Trier’s Dancer in the Dark, the architecture of Diller+Scofidio, and David Byrne and Brian Eno’s My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, he shows how this philosophical sensibility can transform art and culture. For Wolfe, a vibrant, rigorous posthumanism is vital for addressing questions of ethics and justice, language and trans-species communication, social systems and their inclusions and exclusions, and the intellectual aspirations of interdisciplinarity. In What Is Posthumanism? he carefully distinguishes posthumanism from transhumanism (the biotechnological enhancement of human beings) and narrow definitions of the posthuman as the hoped-for transcendence of materiality. In doing so, Wolfe reveals that it is humanism, not the human in all its embodied and prosthetic complexity, that is left behind in posthumanist thought.
From Humanism To Meta Post And Transhumanism
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Author : Irina Deretić
language : en
Publisher: Beyond Humanism: Trans- and Posthumanism / Jenseits des Humanismus: Trans- und Posthumanismus
Release Date : 2016
From Humanism To Meta Post And Transhumanism written by Irina Deretić and has been published by Beyond Humanism: Trans- and Posthumanism / Jenseits des Humanismus: Trans- und Posthumanismus this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Humanism categories.
The essays in this volume consider the relevant historical discourses, important contemporary philosophical reflections as well as artistic perspectives on the relationship between Humanism and Meta-, Post- and Transhumanism. Leading scholars of many different traditions, countries and disciplines have contributed to this collection.
Humanism And Its Discontents
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Author : Paul Jorion
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-02-12
Humanism And Its Discontents written by Paul Jorion and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-12 with Philosophy categories.
This book explains that while posthumanism rose in opposition to the biblical contention that ‘Man was created in the image of God’, transhumanism ascertained the complementary view that ‘Man has been assigned dominion over all creatures’, further exploring a path that had been opened up by the Enlightenment’s notion of human perfectibility. It explains also how posthumanism and transhumanism relate to deconstruction theory, and on a broader level to capitalism, libertarianism, and the fight against human extinction which may involve trespassing the boundary of the skin, achieving individual immortality or dematerialization of the Self and colonisation of distant planets and stars. Two authors debate about truth and reason in today’s world, the notion of personhood and the legacy of the Nietzschean Superhuman in the current varieties of anti-humanism.
The Penumbra Of Personhood
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Author : G.V. Loewen
language : en
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
Release Date : 2020-09-17
The Penumbra Of Personhood written by G.V. Loewen and has been published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-17 with Philosophy categories.
The drive to overcome nature is a projection of the anxiety about succumbing to our own nature. Inevitably, this conflict creates a vicious circle. For in subduing nature to our technical goals - themselves arranged so that our human frailty is to be overcome - we end up destroying the world in which we must live. Of late, we have begun to recognize this viciousness, both in our acts and more profoundly, in our thoughts. Yet the attempt to lose our nature by losing Nature holds an even deeper conflict: "The most effective means of escaping spiritual trial is to become spiritless, and the sooner the better. If only taken care of in time, everything takes care of itself." (Kierkegaard, 1844). Social philosopher G.V. Loewen is the author of forty books on ethics, education, aesthetics, religion, health and social theory, and more recently, metaphysical adventure fiction. He was a professor in the interdisciplinary human sciences for two decades. "The Penumbra of Personhood is not only the cumulative effect and expression of the primordial characters of Dasein, flung along with my being into the world," writes the author, "it is also the most graceful and eloquent response to the unknown that we possess. It is, in its own thrown essence, the fullest divergence from any violence of the reactionary or technique of the manager. It is objectively what we are and thus what we have to offer our own time." Ironically, the State has to contend not with history, the writing of which it mainly controls, but rather morality, part of the pre-State metaphysics and a version of collective human vanity that also claims to be timeless. If it is at first striking that even in our time, morality has retained such a hold, on second glance it is at least not surprising. It has ironically become the weapon of the private person, and this is very much against its own cosmogonical backdrop. Morality is shared, as is belief that the one stems from the other, and in this they are quite unlike either ethics or opinion, also having become the pedestal upon which any demagogue can be placed. The uttering of a "higher law" betrays the moralist at every turn. Even if the State can delicately navigate these potentially dangerous currents while affording to ignore mere moral editorializing - an inevitable whirlpool in any democracy at least - if enough "private" people recognize that their misgivings are shared, morality can once again assume a vestige of its former mantle. It becomes a rip-tide of conventional "wisdom" against which this or that elected regime may ride or be ridden over. If this is the most vulgar expression of Dasein's will to life, and even ontically, will to freedom, then it cannot be ignored by the reflective person. It is the final avenue of appeal in a rationalist social organization. Equipped with its own divinity, morality finds that it still has some suasion in the courts, certainly within many families, and in the schools. It is society's "back door man," to use an old Blues phrase, to point up its consistent vulgarity.
Resaying The Human
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Author : Carl Cederberg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Resaying The Human written by Carl Cederberg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with categories.
Here Levinas is offered as a modern thinker of particular relevance for contemporary discussions surrounding the nature both of the political and of Human Rights. In addition, one finds a systematic analysis of the major works of Levinas, unraveling how a notion of the human develops from within his philosophy.
Theory Of Legal Personhood
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Author : Visa A. J. Kurki
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019
Theory Of Legal Personhood written by Visa A. J. Kurki 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 2019 with Law categories.
Présentation de l'éditeur: "This work offers a new theory of what it means to be a legal person and suggests that it is best understood as a cluster property. The book explores the origins of legal personhood, the issues afflicting a traditional understanding of the concept, and the numerous debates surrounding the topic."
Beyond Faith And Reason
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Author : Tim Holmes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-07-09
Beyond Faith And Reason written by Tim Holmes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-09 with Philosophy categories.
Once again, Holmes brings us deeper along the journey of self analysis in his latest critique of identity. Traditional and contemporary philosophies alike are surveyed with provoking style to illuminate a novel of introspection. The primary goal remains the constituents of human identity. Through an analysis of reason, affectivity, aesthetics and responsibility, this new view presents the human person as the indelible foundation of selfhood. Not only does the psychology presented allow for a delineation of the various elements of who we are, but emerging alongside is a cogent epistemology and spiritual orientation. The depths of existence and the self are equally plumbed and artistically rendered despite their transcendent ends. 'Here we see the Existentialist crisis reexamined through the varying lenses of psychology, theology and, perhaps most beautifully, the honest and genuine voice of human experience. Holmes gives new life to the concept of the 'self,' acknowledging both the infinite complexities and the profound fulfillment associated with conscious existence. This book strikes a chord in the awakening soul.' -Linda Senecal, St. Bernard's Central, Fitchburg Ma. 'Every pen stroke in this book is a summation of history that reaches toward timelessness. The genesis of this book is the same genesis of all mankind and serves as, not only a bridge to a tradition and a past, but also the essential foundation for a movement forward. -Jonas Halley, Assumption College, Worcester Ma. 'I find it interesting that I feel hope and dread at the same time when reading the author's work. The intriguing blend of knowledge and essence remains a source of inspiration.' -Vanessa Miglialo, Sherbrooke Quebec.