The Human and Beyond: Transhumanism, Historicity, Humanness
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چکیده
“Historicity” describes the human condition during one’s life course, marked by contingency and freedom, temporality finitude. The concept also occurs in evolutionary biology, social sciences psychology, highlighting history context. Hannah Arendt situates capacity for new beginnings at essence of beings (natality), allowing generations. Transhumanist narratives are shown as foreign to historicity due a view nature, load accumulated past, directed evolution. Finally, “back dust” motif is related finitude, suggesting that technologies may move us away from humanness.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Theology and Science
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1474-6700', '1474-6719']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14746700.2021.1982249