Concept
Posthuman
Overview
Posthuman or post-human is a concept originating in the fields of science fiction, futurology, contemporary art, and philosophy that means a person or entity that exists in a state beyond being human. The concept aims at addressing a variety of questions, including ethics and justice, language and trans-species communication, social systems, and the intellectual aspirations of interdisciplinarity.
Posthumanism is not to be confused with transhumanism (the biotechnological enhancement of human beings) and narrow definitions of the posthuman as the hoped-for transcendence of materiality. The notion of the posthuman comes up both in posthumanism as well as transhumanism, but it has a special meaning in each tradition.
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oppose and repress by means of the historical reconstruction in imaginative dialectic of a world constituted by these most generalized value-forms and then to eulogize the reconstruction with the epithet "reality." When, in the course of human events, such reconstruction becomes limited to the biography of particular individuals, is an expression of their concrete and unique interest, is lived and acted on, it is…
John Dewey, Creative Intelligence
States what Posthuman is.
The like may be conceived as having been done by each of the other planets, in concert, possibly, with the Earth and with one another. "In proportion as each planet improved its own condition, its life exhausted itself by excess of innervation; but with the consolation of rendering its self-devotion more efficacious, when the extinction of its special functions, first animal, and finally vegetative, reduced it to…
John Stuart Mill, Auguste Comte and Positivism
Close in meaning to Posthuman; the term itself is not named.
Painting and sculpture, origin of, 20. Paleontology neither proves nor disproves development, 367, 376. Picturesque, meaning of, 433. Planetoids, origin of 289. Plato's model republic, central idea of, 388. Previsions and ordinary knowledge, 117; previsions known as science, 118; common and scientific, 123; when quantitative arose, 158; increase in precision, 171. Primary divisions of a germ and of a society…
Herbert Spencer, Illustrations of Universal Progress
Close in meaning to Posthuman; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Posthuman
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- Artificial intelligence
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- Futures studies
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- Ontology
- Donna Haraway
- Posthumanism
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- Transhumanism
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- Deity
- Human nature
- Free will
- Humanism
- Penn State University Press
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- Earth
- Existence
Place in the tradition
Part of Transhumanism.