Humanistic presuppositions about individual and social development have provided the rationale for education since as early as Western culture’s Renaissance period. The belief that the individual could be reformed through education, to the end of bettering the condition of society as a whole, carried a practical kernel of humanism that sprouted into an explicitly anthropocentric… Continue reading Applying Theocentric Posthumanism to Curriculum Theory
Category: Theocentrism
The Derivatively Anthropocentric Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics and Special Relativity
I have previously argued, in this blog, that our universe is derivatively anthropocentric. That is, firstly, that the universe is theocentric in being directly and unqualifiedly determined by the divine will. Secondly, that this divine determination favours the developing flourishing and knowledge of humanity, despite there being nothing in the physical constitution, structure and laws… Continue reading The Derivatively Anthropocentric Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics and Special Relativity
Posthumanism and Ockham’s Razor
Ockham’s Razor is the principle that we should not multiply entities beyond necessity. What that means has various weaker and stronger versions. One on the weaker side merely advises us, when coming up with a theory of the fundamental kinds of things (or stuff or structures) in the universe, or in any smaller domain, to… Continue reading Posthumanism and Ockham’s Razor
A Draft Introduction for a Possible Article on the Philosophy of Religion
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
Optimism in the Face of the Irreconcilably Alien (COVID 19 Edition)
The two feature films directed by Alex Garland, Ex Machina (2014) and Annihilation (2018), have something in common that intrigues me, beyond the obvious similarity of their sci-fi genre. Mild ***SPOILERS*** follow. Mild ***SPOILERS*** follow. Mild ***SPOILERS*** follow. Mild ***SPOILERS*** follow. Mild ***SPOILERS*** follow. Mild ***SPOILERS*** follow. Mild ***SPOILERS*** follow. Mild ***SPOILERS*** follow. Mild ***SPOILERS***… Continue reading Optimism in the Face of the Irreconcilably Alien (COVID 19 Edition)
Divine Omnipotence and Narrative Explanation
My working definition of explanation is the provision of new facts to bring the world back to expectation. For example, when I wake up in the morning, I expect to see my car sitting in the driveway. If, one morning, I were to wake up and see that my care is absent from the driveway,… Continue reading Divine Omnipotence and Narrative Explanation
Bearing the Divine Image and Harmonising with the Universe
The exclusive humanist’s exceptionalist dogma of humanity’s peculiar importance, our central place in the universe, is defeated by realisations grasped in our posthumanist age concerning the contingency of the species’ essential or conceptual boundaries, the functional similarity between us and actual or possible non-human life forms, and the ultimate indifference of physical and chemical laws… Continue reading Bearing the Divine Image and Harmonising with the Universe
The Performance of Gender Oppression
In my last post, here, I pointed out a way in which one futurist suppresses a tacit commitment to objective morality. This suppression is a common theme of posthumanist discourse, because anti-essentialist ethics often tries to have its cake and eat it, too, by declaring all essences to be socially constructed, and yet trying to… Continue reading The Performance of Gender Oppression
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
A Substantial Posthumanist Self
The poststructuralist self is constructed by language and prone to prevailing and countervailing interpretations sustained through dynamic power relations. The critical posthumanist self is a functionally unified hybrid of dynamic natural, cultural and technological systems and self-organising materials. Either way, there does not seem to be enough, here, to explain the objective endurance of a… Continue reading A Substantial Posthumanist Self
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