Human: A History – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780190876388,0190876387, 9780190876418

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• ISBN-13: 9780190876418
• Author: Karolina Hubner

The book examines the history of metaphysical accounts of human nature, and the ethical and political consequences of such accounts. In so doing, it produces a history of the concept “human,” illuminating how our self-understanding as human has evolved across time and place. The book starts with ancient Greek, classical Chinese, and medieval Arabic accounts of human nature and ends with contemporary evolutionary theory and the transhumanist movement. It examines problems ranging from the intelligibility of Christian Incarnation (a relationship between divine person and human beings) to problems posed by genetic engineering and artificial intelligence. It spans not just history of philosophy but also political science, religion, medical ethics, and the history of art and science fiction. It examines the role that the concept “human” has had for racist, sexist, and speciesist thought. Finally, the book highlights a long-standing battle between naturalistic accounts of human beings (on which human beings are just another part of nature) and rationalist-exceptionalist accounts (on which human beings are not merely distinctive but superior to other kinds of things in virtue of their cognitive capacities).

Table contents:

1 Plato and the Pleonectic Conception of Human Nature

2 Aristotle’s Human Beings

3 The Status of the Human in Classical Chinese Philosophy

4 The Nature of Human and Nonhuman Animals in Classical Islamic Philosophy: Alfarabi and Avicenna

5 Renaissance Conceptions of Human Being

6 Margaret Cavendish on Human Beings

7 Spinoza on the Good Life for Humans

8 Hobbes and Rousseau on Human Nature and the State of Nature

9 The Concept of Humanity in Kant’s Transcendental Philosophy

10 Heidegger on Human Being: The Living Thing Having Logos

11 Being Human, Being Homo Sapiens

12 The Metaphysics of Transhumanism

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