According to the theocentric posthumanism that I have been laying out in this blog, there is no objective essence of humanity that divides the human from the non-human. However, there is a concept of humanity in the mind of God, which may be (and is, in my view) the concept expressed in divine revelation that… Continue reading Identifying the Human
Category: Anti-essentialism
The Primacy of Revelation
The anti-essentialism of most posthumanist theory results in the untenability of any theory of ethics or morality based on a moral subject (human or otherwise) realising an objectively prescriptive essence or nature that determines what it means for a being of that kind to flourish. Without a metaphysics of essences, there is just no principled… Continue reading The Primacy of Revelation
The Metaethics of Posthumanist Discourse – Part 2
This post continues from my last post, which was really an argument for a theistic metaethics, i.e. there are no ethical or moral truths without theistic coercion enforcing moral obligation. That was more like an apologetic argument and less like an argument relating to posthumanism, but that is about to be addressed. Next, let’s return… Continue reading The Metaethics of Posthumanist Discourse – Part 2
On the Very Idea of a Human Nature
Anti-humanism is, at its core, an anti-essentialism. This will take some setting up. The essence or nature of something is an absolute answer to the question, “What is it?” That is, an essence is what something is independently of any temporary context or state. That is a tree, this is a planet, I am a… Continue reading On the Very Idea of a Human Nature
Conceptual Distinctions
It will help to clarify concepts to which I refer by certain terminology, especially since many terms in the discourse of posthumanism seem to be contested. By ‘humanism’, I mean the view that humanity is the centre of value and potential for progressive change in the universe, where ‘humanity’ is a natural kind that objectively… Continue reading Conceptual Distinctions
The Rationale
This blog is intended as a publicly externalised thought process concerning the potential for the discourse of critical posthumanism to serve conceptions of theism and humanity that reject human exceptionalism apart from the privileging intentions of a divine creator. It is proposed to consider the anti-essentialist tendencies of the discourse, not as leading inevitably to the… Continue reading The Rationale
Theocentric Posthumanism 
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