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Christian Moral Theology in the Emerging Technoculture : From Posthuman Back to Human.

Machines and gadgets not only weave the fabric of daily life, but more importantly embody philosophical and religious values which shape the contemporary moral vision-a vision that is often at odds with Christian convictions. This book critically examines those values, and offers a framework for how...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Waters, Brent
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Farnham : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2014.
Colección:Ashgate science and religion series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The philosophical background of the emerging technoculture
  • George Grant: illuminating the darkness as darkness
  • Hannah Arendt: mortality and natality
  • Albert Borgmann: devices and desires
  • Confession: admitting the darkness as darkness
  • Repentance: the renewing possibilities of second births
  • Amendment of life: desiring the good
  • The translucent self in an age of transparency: parasitic self-fulfillment
  • Creation into nothing: nihilistic power
  • Dissembling the other: consuming predation.