Religion and Human Enhancement

Death, Values, and Morality
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-62487-7
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 377 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 6115 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in the Future of Humanity and its Successors

This collection vigorously addresses the religious implications of extreme human enhancement technology. Topics covered include cutting edge themes, such as moral enhancement, common ground to both transhumanism and religion, the meaning of death, desire and transcendence, and virtue ethics. Radical enhancement programs, advocated by transhumanists, could arguably have a more profound impact than any other development in human history.

Reflecting a range of opinion about the desirability of extreme enhancement, leading scholars in the field join with emerging scholars to foster enhanced conversation on these topics.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mercer, Calvin

Trothen, Tracy J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie der Technik
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Coming into Focus: An Introduction to the Collection.- 2. In Extropy We Trust: A Systems Theory Approach to Identifying Transhumanism’s Religious Philosophy.- 3. Christian Transhumanism.- 4. Mormonism Mandates Transhumanism.- 5. Technological Apocalypse: Transhumanism as an End-Time Religious Movement.- 6. A Theological Assessment of Whole Brain Emulation: On the Path to Superintelligence.- 7. Is Transhumanism a Distraction? On the Good of Being Boring.- 8. What Exactly Are We Trying to Accomplish? The Role of Desire and Aversion in Transhuman Visions.- 9. Genesis 2.0: Transhumanism, Catholicism, and the Future of Creation.- 10.  “Have You Believed Because You Have Seen?” Transhumanist Qualms about Enhancement of Religious Experience through Alterations to the Visual Field.- 11. The Myth of Moral Bioenhancement: An Evolutionary Anthropology and Theological Critique.- 12. Ancient Aspirations Meet the Enlightenment.- 13. Unfit for the Future? Sin, Salvation, and Moral Bioenhancement in Christian Perspective.- 14. Enhancing Moral Goodness: Towards A Virtue Ethics of Moral Bioenhancement.- 15. Moral Bioenhancement From the Margins: A Feminist Christian Reconsideration.- 16. Technologizing Transcendence: A Critique of Transhumanism.- 17 Must We Die? Transhumanism, Religion and the Fear of Death.- 18. Dining and Dunking the Dead: Post-Mortem Rituals in First-Century Hellenistic Society and What They Reveal about the Role of the Body in Christianity.- 19.  Making Us Better: Believe It or Not?

Über Autor(innen)

Tracy J. Trothen is Associate Professor of Religion at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. She currently co-chairs the American Academy of Religion “Human Enhancement and Transhumanism” Group.

Calvin Mercer is Professor of Religious Studies, East Carolina University, USA. He is co-editor of Palgrave Studies in the Future of Humanity and Its Successors and founding chair of the American Academy of Religion “Human Enhancement and Transhumanism” Group.