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From Humanism to Meta-, Post- and Transhumanism?
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Edited By Irina Deretić and Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
The relationship between humanism, metahumanism, posthumanism and transhumanism is one of the most pressing topics concerning many current cultural, social, political, ethical and individual challenges. There have been a great number of uses of the various terms in history. Meta-, post- and transhumanism have in common that they reject the categorically dualist understanding of human beings inherent in humanism.
The essays in this volume consider the relevant historical discourses, important contemporary philosophical reflections and artistic perspectives on this subject-matter. The goal is to obtain a multifaceted survey of the concepts, the relationship of the various concepts and their advantages as well as their disadvantages. Leading scholars of many different traditions, countries and disciplines have contributed to this collection.
The essays in this volume consider the relevant historical discourses, important contemporary philosophical reflections and artistic perspectives on this subject-matter. The goal is to obtain a multifaceted survey of the concepts, the relationship of the various concepts and their advantages as well as their disadvantages. Leading scholars of many different traditions, countries and disciplines have contributed to this collection.
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- Irina Deretić & Stefan Lorenz Sorgner - Introduction
- Irina Deretić, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade - On the Origin and Genesis of Humans and Other Mortals in Plato’s Protagoras
- Rafael Ferber, University of Luzern - Plato’s “Side Suns”: Beauty, Symmetry and Truth. Comments Concerning Semantic Monism and Pluralism of the “Good” in the Philebus (65a1–5)
- Christos Y. Panayides, University of Nicosia - Aristotle and Darwin on Living Things and Teleology
- Pauliina Remes, University of Uppsala - ‘For Itself and from Nothing’: Plotinus’ One as an Extreme Ideal for Selfhood
- Hans Otto Seitschek, LMU Munich - Christian Humanism: An Alternative Concept of Humanism
- Ivan Vuković, University of Belgrade - Kant’s Two Conceptions of Humanity
- Drago Đurić, University of Belgrade - Darwin’s Naturalization of Ethics
- Una Popović, University of Novi Sad - Heidegger’s Transformation of Traditional Concept of the Human Being
- Nenad Cekić, University of Belgrade - Humanism, State and Freedom: Nozick’s Minimal Humanism?
- Evanghelos Moutsopoulos, Academy of Athens - Is a Renewal of Humanism Possible Today?
- Boris Bratina, University of Priština, Kosovska Mitrovica, Serbia - Other or The Other?
- Mikhail Epstein, Emory University, Atlanta - Creative Disappearance of the Human Being: Introduction to Humanology
- Regine Kather, University of Freiburg - Humans and Nature: Modern Society between Cultural Relativism and the Ontological Foundation of Values
- Marija Bogdanović, University of Belgrade - Times of Hope and Risk: Market Based Genetics
- Karen Gloy, Universität of Luzern - Post-Humanistic Thinking and Its Ethical Evaluation
- Evangelos D. Protopapadakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens - Earth as a Life-raft and Ethics as the Raft’s Axe
- J. Hendrik Heinrichs, University of Erfurt - Trans-human-ism: Technophile Ethos or Ethics in a Technological Age?
- Mirjana Pavlović, Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade - The “Literature of Humanity”: The Case of Lu Xun’s Diary of a Madman
- Biljana Dojčinović, University of Belgrade - Modernist Narrative Techniques and Challenges of Humanity: John Updike in European Perspective
- Marina Milivojević-Mađarev, Yugoslav Drama Theater, Belgrade - The Idea of Humanism in the Work of Sarah Kane
- Evi D. Sampanikou, University of the Aegean - Posthumanism in Contemporary Greek Art: Marios Spiliopoulos, Traces of Human Beings
- Predrag Milidrag, University of Belgrade - Post-humanism of The Matrix Trilogy
- Yvonne Förster, Leuphana University Lüneburg - The Body as Medium: Fashion as Art
- Goran Gocić, Belgrade - One Genealogy of De-centring
- Jaime del Val, Institute Reverso - Metahuman: Post-anatomical Bodies, Metasex, and Capitalism of Affect in Post-posthumanism
- Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, John Cabot University, Rome - Nietzsche’s Virtue Ethics and Sandels’ Rejection of Enhancement Technologies: Truthful, Virtuous Parents may enhance their Children Genetically
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- Copyright
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- About the book
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- Editorial
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Irina Deretić & Stefan Lorenz Sorgner - Introduction
- Irina Deretić, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade - On the Origin and Genesis of Humans and Other Mortals in Plato’s Protagoras
- Rafael Ferber, University of Luzern - Plato’s “Side Suns”: Beauty, Symmetry and Truth. Comments Concerning Semantic Monism and Pluralism of the “Good” in the Philebus (65a1–5)
- Christos Y. Panayides, University of Nicosia - Aristotle and Darwin on Living Things and Teleology
- Pauliina Remes, University of Uppsala - ‘For Itself and from Nothing’: Plotinus’ One as an Extreme Ideal for Selfhood
- Hans Otto Seitschek, LMU Munich - Christian Humanism: An Alternative Concept of Humanism
- Ivan Vuković, University of Belgrade - Kant’s Two Conceptions of Humanity
- Drago Đurić, University of Belgrade - Darwin’s Naturalization of Ethics
- Una Popović, University of Novi Sad - Heidegger’s Transformation of Traditional Concept of the Human Being
- Nenad Cekić, University of Belgrade - Humanism, State and Freedom: Nozick’s Minimal Humanism?
- Evanghelos Moutsopoulos, Academy of Athens - Is a Renewal of Humanism Possible Today?
- Boris Bratina, University of Priština, Kosovska Mitrovica, Serbia - Other or The Other?
- Mikhail Epstein, Emory University, Atlanta - Creative Disappearance of the Human Being: Introduction to Humanology
- Regine Kather, University of Freiburg - Humans and Nature: Modern Society between Cultural Relativism and the Ontological Foundation of Values
- Marija Bogdanović, University of Belgrade - Times of Hope and Risk: Market Based Genetics
- Karen Gloy, Universität of Luzern - Post-Humanistic Thinking and Its Ethical Evaluation
- Evangelos D. Protopapadakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens - Earth as a Life-raft and Ethics as the Raft’s Axe
- J. Hendrik Heinrichs, University of Erfurt - Trans-human-ism: Technophile Ethos or Ethics in a Technological Age?
- Mirjana Pavlović, Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade - The “Literature of Humanity”: The Case of Lu Xun’s Diary of a Madman
- Biljana Dojčinović, University of Belgrade - Modernist Narrative Techniques and Challenges of Humanity: John Updike in European Perspective
- Marina Milivojević-Mađarev, Yugoslav Drama Theater, Belgrade - The Idea of Humanism in the Work of Sarah Kane
- Evi D. Sampanikou, University of the Aegean - Posthumanism in Contemporary Greek Art: Marios Spiliopoulos, Traces of Human Beings
- Predrag Milidrag, University of Belgrade - Post-humanism of The Matrix Trilogy
- Yvonne Förster, Leuphana University Lüneburg - The Body as Medium: Fashion as Art
- Goran Gocić, Belgrade - One Genealogy of De-centring
- Jaime del Val, Institute Reverso - Metahuman: Post-anatomical Bodies, Metasex, and Capitalism of Affect in Post-posthumanism
- Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, John Cabot University, Rome - Nietzsche’s Virtue Ethics and Sandels’ Rejection of Enhancement Technologies: Truthful, Virtuous Parents may enhance their Children Genetically
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Pauliina Remes
University of Uppsala
‘For Itself and from Nothing’: Plotinus’ One as an Extreme Ideal for Selfhood
Ancient philosophy includes a controversial ideal of becoming godlike. This ideal can be interpreted as a call to become a perfect, invulnerable being untouched by worldly desires and contingencies. If so, then it embodies, then so one might argue, both an unrealistic and inhumane ideal to become another kind of creature. One may wonder what the ethical benefits of such a goal are: The best life for human beings would be a life that actually does not resemble a human living at all, and would not, thus, be an actualization of humanity or its best part, but an abandonment of it. (For a related accusation in Platonism, see Annas 1999, ch. VI). Moreover, since there seems to be a rupture between human and non-human, one may also raise a question whether this is an impossible telos, a breach of categories, as it were.
The worry becomes ever more pressing when, in later antiquity and during the Middle Ages, monotheistic conceptions of deity are further developed. In Neoplatonism, as well as in its Christian and Islamic aftermath, we find a distinction between that which is the creator/generator, an independent and self-sufficient thing, and that which is created/generated, a dependent and lacking being. Both of these descriptions seem essential attributes of the nature of the described thing, the former of God or the...
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- Irina Deretić & Stefan Lorenz Sorgner - Introduction
- Irina Deretić, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade - On the Origin and Genesis of Humans and Other Mortals in Plato’s Protagoras
- Rafael Ferber, University of Luzern - Plato’s “Side Suns”: Beauty, Symmetry and Truth. Comments Concerning Semantic Monism and Pluralism of the “Good” in the Philebus (65a1–5)
- Christos Y. Panayides, University of Nicosia - Aristotle and Darwin on Living Things and Teleology
- Pauliina Remes, University of Uppsala - ‘For Itself and from Nothing’: Plotinus’ One as an Extreme Ideal for Selfhood
- Hans Otto Seitschek, LMU Munich - Christian Humanism: An Alternative Concept of Humanism
- Ivan Vuković, University of Belgrade - Kant’s Two Conceptions of Humanity
- Drago Đurić, University of Belgrade - Darwin’s Naturalization of Ethics
- Una Popović, University of Novi Sad - Heidegger’s Transformation of Traditional Concept of the Human Being
- Nenad Cekić, University of Belgrade - Humanism, State and Freedom: Nozick’s Minimal Humanism?
- Evanghelos Moutsopoulos, Academy of Athens - Is a Renewal of Humanism Possible Today?
- Boris Bratina, University of Priština, Kosovska Mitrovica, Serbia - Other or The Other?
- Mikhail Epstein, Emory University, Atlanta - Creative Disappearance of the Human Being: Introduction to Humanology
- Regine Kather, University of Freiburg - Humans and Nature: Modern Society between Cultural Relativism and the Ontological Foundation of Values
- Marija Bogdanović, University of Belgrade - Times of Hope and Risk: Market Based Genetics
- Karen Gloy, Universität of Luzern - Post-Humanistic Thinking and Its Ethical Evaluation
- Evangelos D. Protopapadakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens - Earth as a Life-raft and Ethics as the Raft’s Axe
- J. Hendrik Heinrichs, University of Erfurt - Trans-human-ism: Technophile Ethos or Ethics in a Technological Age?
- Mirjana Pavlović, Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade - The “Literature of Humanity”: The Case of Lu Xun’s Diary of a Madman
- Biljana Dojčinović, University of Belgrade - Modernist Narrative Techniques and Challenges of Humanity: John Updike in European Perspective
- Marina Milivojević-Mađarev, Yugoslav Drama Theater, Belgrade - The Idea of Humanism in the Work of Sarah Kane
- Evi D. Sampanikou, University of the Aegean - Posthumanism in Contemporary Greek Art: Marios Spiliopoulos, Traces of Human Beings
- Predrag Milidrag, University of Belgrade - Post-humanism of The Matrix Trilogy
- Yvonne Förster, Leuphana University Lüneburg - The Body as Medium: Fashion as Art
- Goran Gocić, Belgrade - One Genealogy of De-centring
- Jaime del Val, Institute Reverso - Metahuman: Post-anatomical Bodies, Metasex, and Capitalism of Affect in Post-posthumanism
- Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, John Cabot University, Rome - Nietzsche’s Virtue Ethics and Sandels’ Rejection of Enhancement Technologies: Truthful, Virtuous Parents may enhance their Children Genetically
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author(s)/editor(s)
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Editorial
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Irina Deretić & Stefan Lorenz Sorgner - Introduction
- Irina Deretić, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade - On the Origin and Genesis of Humans and Other Mortals in Plato’s Protagoras
- Rafael Ferber, University of Luzern - Plato’s “Side Suns”: Beauty, Symmetry and Truth. Comments Concerning Semantic Monism and Pluralism of the “Good” in the Philebus (65a1–5)
- Christos Y. Panayides, University of Nicosia - Aristotle and Darwin on Living Things and Teleology
- Pauliina Remes, University of Uppsala - ‘For Itself and from Nothing’: Plotinus’ One as an Extreme Ideal for Selfhood
- Hans Otto Seitschek, LMU Munich - Christian Humanism: An Alternative Concept of Humanism
- Ivan Vuković, University of Belgrade - Kant’s Two Conceptions of Humanity
- Drago Đurić, University of Belgrade - Darwin’s Naturalization of Ethics
- Una Popović, University of Novi Sad - Heidegger’s Transformation of Traditional Concept of the Human Being
- Nenad Cekić, University of Belgrade - Humanism, State and Freedom: Nozick’s Minimal Humanism?
- Evanghelos Moutsopoulos, Academy of Athens - Is a Renewal of Humanism Possible Today?
- Boris Bratina, University of Priština, Kosovska Mitrovica, Serbia - Other or The Other?
- Mikhail Epstein, Emory University, Atlanta - Creative Disappearance of the Human Being: Introduction to Humanology
- Regine Kather, University of Freiburg - Humans and Nature: Modern Society between Cultural Relativism and the Ontological Foundation of Values
- Marija Bogdanović, University of Belgrade - Times of Hope and Risk: Market Based Genetics
- Karen Gloy, Universität of Luzern - Post-Humanistic Thinking and Its Ethical Evaluation
- Evangelos D. Protopapadakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens - Earth as a Life-raft and Ethics as the Raft’s Axe
- J. Hendrik Heinrichs, University of Erfurt - Trans-human-ism: Technophile Ethos or Ethics in a Technological Age?
- Mirjana Pavlović, Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade - The “Literature of Humanity”: The Case of Lu Xun’s Diary of a Madman
- Biljana Dojčinović, University of Belgrade - Modernist Narrative Techniques and Challenges of Humanity: John Updike in European Perspective
- Marina Milivojević-Mađarev, Yugoslav Drama Theater, Belgrade - The Idea of Humanism in the Work of Sarah Kane
- Evi D. Sampanikou, University of the Aegean - Posthumanism in Contemporary Greek Art: Marios Spiliopoulos, Traces of Human Beings
- Predrag Milidrag, University of Belgrade - Post-humanism of The Matrix Trilogy
- Yvonne Förster, Leuphana University Lüneburg - The Body as Medium: Fashion as Art
- Goran Gocić, Belgrade - One Genealogy of De-centring
- Jaime del Val, Institute Reverso - Metahuman: Post-anatomical Bodies, Metasex, and Capitalism of Affect in Post-posthumanism
- Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, John Cabot University, Rome - Nietzsche’s Virtue Ethics and Sandels’ Rejection of Enhancement Technologies: Truthful, Virtuous Parents may enhance their Children Genetically