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Posthuman Bliss? - The Failed Promise of Transhumanism (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,132
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Posthuman Bliss? - The Failed Promise of Transhumanism (Hardcover): Susan B. Levin

Posthuman Bliss? - The Failed Promise of Transhumanism (Hardcover)

Susan B. Levin

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A tightly argued and expansive examination of the pitfalls of transhumanism that reacquaints us with what it means to live well. Advocates of transhumanism, or "radical" enhancement, urge us to pursue the biotechnological heightening of select capacities - above all, cognitive ability - so far beyond any human limit that the beings with those capacities would exist on a higher ontological plane. For proponents of such views, humanity's self-transcendence through advancements in science and technology may even be morally required. Consequently, the human stakes of how we respond to transhumanism are immeasurably high. In Posthuman Bliss? The Failed Promise of Transhumanism, Susan B. Levin challenges transhumanists' overarching commitments regarding the mind and brain, ethics, liberal democracy, knowledge, and reality, showing their notion of humanity's self-transcendence into "posthumanity" to be little more than fantasy. Uniting philosophical with scientific arguments, Levin mounts a significant challenge to transhumanists' claim that science and technology support their vision of posthumanity. In a clear and engaging style, she dismantles transhumanists' breezy assurances that posthumans will emerge if we but allocate sufficient resources to that end. Far from offering theoretical and practical "proof of concept" for the vision that they urge upon us, Levin argues, transhumanists engage inadequately with cognitive psychology, biology, and neuroscience, often relying on questionable or outdated views within those fields. Having shown in depth why transhumanism should be rejected, Levin argues forcefully for a holistic perspective on living well that is rooted in Aristotle's virtue ethics but that is adapted to liberal democracy. This holism is thoroughly human, in the best of senses: It directs us to consider worthy ends for us as human beings and to do the irreplaceable work of understanding ourselves rather than relying on technology and science to be our salvation.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Release date: March 2021
Authors: Susan B. Levin (Roe/Straut Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy)
Dimensions: 244 x 163 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-005149-5
Categories: Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Philosophy of mind
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy
Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Bio-ethics
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Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Philosophy of mind
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy
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LSN: 0-19-005149-3
Barcode: 9780190051495

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