Category Archives: Transhumanism – Religion
Is Transhumanism A Religion?
Transhumanism is an intellectual movement that aims to transform and improve the human condition by developing and making available sophisticated technologies to greatly enhance human intellectual, physiological, and moral functioning. Transhumanists argue that humanity in its current form represents an early phase of its evolutionary development. A common transhumanist thesis is that humans may eventually transform themselves into beings with such greatly expanded abilities that they will have become godlike or posthuman. Notably, this includes defeating the limitation imposed by death. Continue reading Is Transhumanism A Religion?
Transhumanism and Religion
Julian Huxley, who popularised the term transhumanism in an influential 1957 essay.
Transhumanism is:
The intellectual and cultural movement that affirms the possibility and desirability of fundamentally improving the human condition through applied reason, especially by developing and making widely available technologies to eliminate aging and to greatly enhance human intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities Continue reading Transhumanism and Religion
Transhumanism and the End of Religion
Mankind is still embryonic … [humans are] the bud from which something more complicated and more centered than [themselves] should emerge. Continue reading Transhumanism and the End of Religion