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Transhumanism, Posthumanism, and the Catholic Church

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24/2 – Fall 2019, pages -369
Date of online publication: 20 décembre 2019
Date of publication: 20 décembre 2019

Abstract

In this essay, I engage the foreseeable consequences for the future of humanity triggered by Emerging Technologies and their underpinning philosophy, transhumanism. The transhumanist stance is compared with the default view currently held in many academic institutions of higher education: posthumanism. It is maintained that the transhumanist view is less inimical to the fostering of human dignity than the posthuman one. After this is established, I suggest that the Catholic Church may find an ally in a transhumanist ethos in a two‑fold manner. On the one hand, by anchoring and promoting the defense of “the human” already present in transhumanism. On the other, rethinking the effectiveness of the delivery of sacraments in a humanity heavily altered by these technologies.

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Malapi‑Nelson, Alcibiades. “Transhumanism, Posthumanism, and the Catholic Church.” Forum Philosophicum 24, no. 2 (2019): 369-96. doi:10.35765/forphil.2019.2402.16.

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