The history of Western modernity has been the history of humanism, and more particularly, the history of a shifting of the universal centre of potential progress and value, from God to humanity, theocentrism to anthropocentrism. Without initially diminishing an entrenched commitment to theism, the Renaissance and the Enlightenment witnessed the gradual displacement of the external… Continue reading A Draft Introduction for a Possible Article on the Philosophy of Religion
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Against Appeals to Natural Law in the Public Square
Posthumanism is an anti-essentialism and, as such, it rejects arguments from humanity’s intrinsic nature to conclusions about law and morality. Or, at least, that is the logical consequence. It does not stop posthumanists from making ethical and culturally critical arguments that rely on a fluid conception of telos to, somewhat selectively, ground their normative claims.… Continue reading Against Appeals to Natural Law in the Public Square
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
Theocentric Posthumanism 