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Human Flourishing in a Technological World: A Theological Perspective

Editat de Jens Zimmermann
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 21 sep 2023
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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780192844019
ISBN-10: 0192844016
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 160 x 243 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Recenzii

Human Flourishing in a Technological World is a thoughtful and reflective work that directly engages the transhumanist vision of secular material progress from a position of Christian personhood.
The volume's expansive focus on human flourishing and technology is both a virtue and a vice. Negatively, the foci, methodology, and style of the fifteen contributions are distractingly varied despite their generally theological orientation. So too the quality of the contributions is uneven. Positively, the collection highlights the discipline and context-spanning implications of technological advance, particularly the recent advances in AI. In a rapidly changing field, an expansive vision helps avoid neglecting what might turn out to be vital.

Notă biografică

Jens Zimmermann holds a PhD from the University of British Columbia (Comparative Literature) and also from the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany (Philosophy). He has published widely in continental philosophy and theology. He previously taught at UBC and Trinity Western University, where he held the Canada Research Chair from 2006 to 2016, and currently is J.I. Packer Chair in Theology at Regent College. He was Visiting Research Fellow at Cambridge (Trinity Hall, 2017-2018), and a British Academy Visiting Fellow at Oxford (Christ Church College, 2018-2019). He is currently Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Theology and Modern European Thought at Oxford and Research Fellow in Historical and Constructive Theology at the University of the Free State, South Africa.