Humanity 2.0

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Marx, Nietzsche and Freud showed that we're exotic apes suffering from "God delusion"

Inhabiting the right mental space to deal with others and the world

Incorporating yourself in a social entity with a greater purpose

Redesigning environment, including one's body, to enable a certain desirable form of existence with less effort

Paideia (eg. The humanistic world-view)

Universitas (eg, The project of humanity)

"Humanity" is a mask for hegemonic male elits

The generic postmodetn academic critique

Ancient Artificial Humanity costs too much and delievers too litle

Mediaeval Artificial

Humanity as Artificial Modern Artificial Engineering (eg. Transhumanism)

Have we always, or never been humans?

Geniune humanity is precious and elusive, and hence "projectes" and "disciplines" for its promotions and maintance

Diviersity of physical and mental qualities of beings that might qualify as humans

Ambugiuty about drawing line between H and NH, starting with Linnaeus def Homo Sapiens

Michael Foucault "Death of Men" thesis

Six arguments against humanity

The neo-liberal (and neo-conservative) critique

Not even humans wants to associate with other humans anymore - they prefer other animals and the "second selves" they can create on computers

The Posthumansit critiques

The Animal Rights' critique

The Ecological critique

Humanity's self-priviliging is based on pre-Darwin theological ideas that casues other creatures suffer

The projects associated with humanity are depending natural resources, if not endangering entire biosphere

Humanity 2.0

Emerging Two Cultures Problems of Humanity 2.0 Apes

Gods Stressing our nearness to the gods

Not everything about human makes us human; we might improve our humanity if we gained or lost some qualities

Discipline, replace, if not outright, eliminate animal character of humanity

Ray Curzweil "spiritual machines"

In order to rise to something purer, to God

Signature: optics

Peter singer "animal liberations"

Signature: natural history

Stressing our nearness to apes

Eager to show our continues with the rest of animal kingdom As a form of worhsip and submission to God