Does science mutate into religion? A case of transhumanism

MOTAL, Jan. Does science mutate into religion? A case of transhumanism. In 12th EASR Conference, Hope University, Liverpool: Religion, Migration, Mutation. 2013.

Základní údaje

• Originální název: Does science mutate into religion? A case of transhumanism
• Autoři: MOTAL, Jan.
• Vydání: 12th EASR Conference, Hope University, Liverpool: Religion, Migration, Mutation, 2013.

Další údaje

• Originální jazyk: angličtina
• Typ výsledku: Konferenční abstrakt
• Obor: 60300 6.3 Philosophy, Ethics and Religion
• Stát vydavatele: Velká Británie a Severní Irsko
• Utajení: není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
• WWW: URL
• Organizační jednotka: Filozofická fakulta
• Klíčová slova česky: transhumanismus; Latour; sekularizace; theosis
• Klíčová slova anglicky: transhumanism; Latour; secularisation; theosis
• Příznaky: Mezinárodní význam

Anotace

This paper is a case study of transhumanism, a contemporary international movement and a science-based philosophy. The transhumanism carries many signs of what we often designate as religion: believing in immortality, expectations of an end of this world and a beginning of a new age etc. This paper reveals the transhumanism as a case of a new religious form growing out of science. As a kind of late modern variation of dualism, the movement is focused on an eschatology of biotechnology (The Singularity) and a soteriology of human soul released from the shackles of the body into an universal intelligence network. The paper tries to understand this phenomenon in a wide context of history of science in terms of the Latourian analysis of modernity. Involving the notions of Actor–Network Theory, it reveals the transhumanism as a manifestation of contemporary transformations of religion.