Hunting Tiamat: A Genealogy of a Transhumanist Ontology
A common narrative about secular transhumanism is that has taken shape in the past hundred or so years with philosophical roots that only go back as far as the Enlightenment. I challenge this narrative by tracing a genealogy of this kind of transhumanism's ontology. My purpose is to question th...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | German |
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Mohr Siebeck
2023
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Philosophy, theology and the sciences
Year: 2023, Volume: 10, Issue: 2, Pages: 154-174 |
| IxTheo Classification: | BC Ancient Orient; religion BE Greco-Roman religions FA Theology NBD Doctrine of Creation NBE Anthropology TA History VA Philosophy |
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Theogony
B Transhumanism B Heraclitus B Nietzsche B Ontology B Chaoskampf B Extropy B Enuma elis B Power |
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| Summary: | A common narrative about secular transhumanism is that has taken shape in the past hundred or so years with philosophical roots that only go back as far as the Enlightenment. I challenge this narrative by tracing a genealogy of this kind of transhumanism's ontology. My purpose is to question the common narrative that transhumanism is a new way of thinking about and approaching the human by situating transhumanism in a greater historical context. The myth in which transhumanism is rooted is the Chaoskampf, 'struggle with chaos,' a motif found in many ancient mythologies. That is not to say that this transhumanist ontology is exactly like the Chaoskampf, but it is a revitalization and readaptation of the Chaoskampf for the present age. |
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| ISSN: | 2197-2834 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Philosophy, theology and the sciences
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1628/ptsc-2023-0019 |