The Human and Beyond: Transhumanism, Historicity, Humanness

Cruz, Eduardo R.

doi:10.1080/14746700.2021.1982249

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“…68 The desired goals of transhumanists are obvious: the expansion of human capabilities-especially the human brain -a longer, healthier, perhaps even eternal life. 69 At first glance, the panorama looks interesting and desirable; but on closer inspection, the devilishness of the whole transhumanist project becomes apparent. The following four points illustrate this: 1.…”

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“You will be like God” - the fall of man once and today

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2024

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Reasons are given as to why the narrative of the fall of man in Genesis 3:1-24 refers to a real event. The fall of man presumably took place more than 600,000 years ago. Genesis 3:1-24 describes in a very vivid way how the devil seduces people to disobey God. A central point in the devil's strategy is the promise "you will be like God". Wanting to be like God is hubris. The best medicine against hubris is the virtue of humility. Just as in Genesis 3:1-24, also today the devil wants to seduce people to disobey God to enslave and destroy them. Time and again, the devil manages to seduce people into evil under the guise of good with his promise "you will be like God". Concepts and behaviours that at first glance appear to be philanthropic and liberating can be very destructive. As examples of this, four thematic complexes are considered. In the first two issues (atomisation of society, propagation of gender ideology and homosexuality), people are increasingly uprooted and lose more and more of their identity. With abortion and euthanasia, people want to play God at the margins of life and relativise the clear imperative "you shall not murder" and replace it with their own criteria of good and evil. Transhumanism creates serious obstacles in the relationship with God.

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“You will be like God” - the fall of man once and today

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2024

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“…To bring such questions into a constructivist schooling process, it is necessary to abandon the traditional concept of freedom as universal value of all individual human beings independent of particular time periods and cultural understandings (Cruz 2021). Contrary to more or less traditionalist concepts like these, the activities exemplified here endeavour to explore liberty as multi-layered value that should not be interpreted merely within an over-individualist framework as a right to do anything one wants, but as a historically determined balance between total arbitrariness and oppression.…”

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Enhancement of constructivist and procedural concepts of good citizenship and civic identity in the Czech educational framework

Kvĕtina

2022

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This paper identifies the main flaws, dilemmas and challenges concerning the concept of civic education and teaching democracy in the Czech schooling system after 1989. Special focus is placed on the urgent need for the application of more pluralist, constructivist and procedural approaches that would enhance the traditional concepts of social science education based on facts and typologies. In this regard, methods and trends promoting the principle of civic education as a multidimensional and everyday phenomenon are applied, since such understanding of civic identity has become even more urgent in recent two years with the reflection of issues concerning the SARS‑CoV‑2 situation. To suggest and analyse possible means to this end, the study outlines two dominant causes of the low prestige and effectivity of civic education in the Czech Republic: first, the implicitly ideological and universalist character of the current national curriculum, which is not able to accept social values as a permanently flowing and contextually based discourse; second, the prevalence of ethnic attributes in the process of national identification which impede any relevant efforts to treat collective identity and citizenship in an open pluralist way. Nonetheless, the main focus of the paper lies in its empirical part where the fundamental pillars and particular activities from the current EU project—realised at several Czech universities and grammar schools in recent three years—are both presented and analysed. On the basis of this project analysis, the paper aims to demonstrate that together with the implementation of procedural, interpretative and constructivist understanding of social reality, even more radical questions—linked to postmodern democratic theory—such as the notion of agonist democracy, the impact of social networks, the reflection of instrumental manipulative behaviour as well as more unbiased interpretations of human liberty should be addressed in the Czech current educational discourse as well.

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The Human and Beyond: Transhumanism, Historicity, Humanness

Cited by 2 publications

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“You will be like God” - the fall of man once and today

“You will be like God” - the fall of man once and today

Enhancement of constructivist and procedural concepts of good citizenship and civic identity in the Czech educational framework

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