Human flourishing in a technological world : a theological perspective
Human flourishing in a technological world
Bok · Engelsk · 2023
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| Omfang | viii, 356 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | Introduction / Jens Zimmermann. From living souls to software selves: The movements of enchantment through Western metaphysics / Robert Doede. Oh, that we might learn to see everything differently: Interrogating a Baconian spirit, confessing (in)humanity / Ashley John Moyse. Personhood and technology / Jens Zimmermann. The icon and the idol: A Christian perspective on sociable robots / Jordan Wales. Becoming human in a technological world / John Behr. Remaining focused: Human flourishing and the mundane in the emergent technoculture / Brent Waters. The evolution of wisdom in a technological world: An exploration in nature and grace / Celia Deane-Drummond. Transhumanism, embodied cognition, and psychiatry / Thomas Fuchs. Leisure in a technological world / Clark Elliston. Education, enhancement, and the pursuit of the good / David Lewin. Human flourishing, disability, and technology / Eleanor McLaughlin. Living in the midst of death: Theological and philosophical reflections on ageing and identity / Michael Mawson. Death and glory in a technological world / Michael Burdett. Personhood and human flourishing in a technological world / Jaron Lanier. Personhood, consciousness, and technology: A dialogue with Jaron Lanier. - Human Flourishing in a Technological World addresses the question of human identity and flourishing in the light of recent technological advances. The chapters in Part I provide a philosophical-theological evaluation of changing major anthropological assumptions that have guided human self-understanding from antiquity to modernity: How did we move from a religious and mostly embodied anthropology of the person to the idea that we can upload human consciousness to computing platforms? How did we come to imagine that machines can actually be intelligent, or even learn in human fashion? Moreover, what metaphysical changes explain our mostly uncritical embrace of a technological determination of being and thus of how reality "works"? In Part II, the focus turns to the practical implications of our changing understanding of what it means to be human. Covering some of the most pressing current concerns about human flourishing, these chapters deal with the impact of technology on education, healthcare, disability, leisure and the nature of work, communication, aging, death, and the nature of wisdom for human flourishing in light of evolutionary biology. The volume includes the text of a lecutre by virtual reality engineer and computer scientist Jaron Lanier, and a discussion between Lanier and other contributors.
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| Emner | etikk moral
religion teknologi |
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| ISBN | 9780192844019
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