The Soul of Trans-Humanism
This article tackles the question: how should Christian theologians think about the human soul in light of the challenges posed by the new emphasis in brain-mind identity in neuroscience and trasn-humanism? Ways of improving human nature through medical therapy, genetic enhancement, and trans-human...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2005
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| In: |
Dialog
Year: 2005, Volume: 44, Issue: 4, Pages: 381-395 |
| Further subjects: | B
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B Christian Anthropology B Substance Dualism B Relationality B Person B Trans-humanism |
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| Summary: | This article tackles the question: how should Christian theologians think about the human soul in light of the challenges posed by the new emphasis in brain-mind identity in neuroscience and trasn-humanism? Ways of improving human nature through medical therapy, genetic enhancement, and trans-human cybernetic immortality are explored; and their assumptions are correlated with a spectrum of Christian theories of the soul such as substance dualism, emergent dualism, nonreductive physicalism, and materialism. Finally, the article concludes that the human person should be thought of relationally, and the dimension that is decisive for resurrection is the relation of the soul to God. |
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| ISSN: | 1540-6385 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Dialog
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/j.0012-2033.2005.00282.x |
