Posthuman Freedom as the Right to Unlimited Pleasure
Keywords:
corporeity, freedom, metamodernity, post human, transhumanism.
Abstract
The study discusses the evolution of the concept of “freedom”: from its humanistic existential to transhumanistic corporeal meanings. The authors refer to the pure transhumanist discourse regarding the moral, legal and physical freedom when the man is transiting from existence to presence, from the body to corporeity, from material to virtual being. Overall, the problem of moral values is raised in terms of transhumanist philosophy, the ethical assessment is provided to the contemporary transhumanistic projects of humanity improvement, as well as to the current concept of its freedoms. As a result of the study the authors conclude that the category of “freedom” in the epoch of metamodernity is free from elevated, spiritual and transcendental forms that used to be so typical of it not long ago, and it returns to its literal and primitive manifestations showing unlimited corporeal pleasure, cognitive opportunities and human mental self-control.
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Published
2021-05-05
How to Cite
Meliakova, Y. V., Kovalenko, I. I., Zhdanenko, S. B., Kalnytskyi, E. A., & Krasiuk, T. V. (2021). Posthuman Freedom as the Right to Unlimited Pleasure. Amazonia Investiga, 10(39), 62-75. https://doi.org/10.34069/AI/2021.39.03.6
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