Transhumanism and the Theology of "Xiang": Deconstructing Transhumanism's Self-Centered Epistemology and Retrieving a Communal Sense of Being

An embedded danger in transhumanism is the self-centered epistemology. The first-person perspective in the act of knowing, although it is unnecessary in principle, has brought about the first and only perspective on the act of being. An alternative-robust epistemology that reinstates the finitude of...

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1. VerfasserIn: Jung, Daekyung (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Routledge [2019]
In: Theology and science
Jahr: 2019, Band: 17, Heft: 4, Seiten: 524-538
RelBib Classification:CF Christentum und Wissenschaft
KBM Asien
NBE Anthropologie
NCJ Wissenschaftsethik
VB Logik; philosophische Hermeneutik; philosophische Erkenntnislehre
weitere Schlagwörter:B Korean theology
B Transhumanism
B Epistemology
B Egocentrism
B Eastern philosophy
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Zusammenfassung:An embedded danger in transhumanism is the self-centered epistemology. The first-person perspective in the act of knowing, although it is unnecessary in principle, has brought about the first and only perspective on the act of being. An alternative-robust epistemology that reinstates the finitude of the self and incorporates a holistic vision of being is needed. This article proposes a Korean theological epistemology, the theology of xiang, coined and proposed by Heup Young Kim. The proposal will contribute to situating transhumanism and its technological progress in light of the community of beings rather than in light of isolated islands of individuals.
ISSN:1474-6719
Enthält:Enthalten in: Theology and science
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/14746700.2019.1670966