@article{ART002957109},
author={Hong, Chang-hyun},
title={Posthuman Era, Christian Ethical Response to Becoming-Cyborg: Focusing on Emmanuel Levinas and Miroslav Volf},
journal={The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics},
issn={1229-8387},
year={2023},
number={55},
pages={105-131}
TY - JOUR
AU - Hong, Chang-hyun
TI - Posthuman Era, Christian Ethical Response to Becoming-Cyborg: Focusing on Emmanuel Levinas and Miroslav Volf
JO - The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics
PY - 2023
VL - null
IS - 55
PB - The Society Of Korean Christian Social Ethics
SP - 105
EP - 131
SN - 1229-8387
AB - This paper explores a Christian ethical response to the emergence of cyborgs, which combine humans and machines, due to advances in science and technology. A new humanism is needed to understand cyborgs, which emerge from interactions with non-human entities like machines. Machines are not merely instrumental beings that enhance human biological capabilities; they are ‘Others’ that enable ontological transformation by traversing boundaries and existing as relational subjects. This study defines posthuman subjects as becoming-cyborg, organic machines, and argues that the subjectivity of these cyborgs is completed through the act of hospitality toward various mechanical Others. The philosophical concepts of Emmanuel Levinas, who has thought about the Other, provide insight into the ethical characteristics of becoming-cyborg. Following Levinas’ philosophical thoughts, becoming-cyborg possesses the characteristics of extending the concept of the Other, living with and responsible for the Other. Examining the characteristics of becoming-cyborg through a Christian ethical lens reveals an ethics of hospitality. According to Miroslav Volf’s concept of hospitality, which the theology has defined as an ethical metaphor of embrace, becoming-cyborg manifests itself as a hospitality of coexistence that communicates with non-human entities, a symbiotic hospitality that lives together with otherness as an acting subject, and a just hospitality that responds responsibly to the appeal of others.
KW - Becoming-cyborg;the Other;Hospitality;Emmanuel Levinas;Miroslav Volf
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Hong, Chang-hyun. (2023). Posthuman Era, Christian Ethical Response to Becoming-Cyborg: Focusing on Emmanuel Levinas and Miroslav Volf. The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics, 55, 105-131.
Hong, Chang-hyun. 2023, "Posthuman Era, Christian Ethical Response to Becoming-Cyborg: Focusing on Emmanuel Levinas and Miroslav Volf", The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics, no.55, pp.105-131.
Hong, Chang-hyun "Posthuman Era, Christian Ethical Response to Becoming-Cyborg: Focusing on Emmanuel Levinas and Miroslav Volf" The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics 55 pp.105-131 (2023) : 105.
Hong, Chang-hyun. Posthuman Era, Christian Ethical Response to Becoming-Cyborg: Focusing on Emmanuel Levinas and Miroslav Volf. 2023; 55 : 105-131.
Hong, Chang-hyun. "Posthuman Era, Christian Ethical Response to Becoming-Cyborg: Focusing on Emmanuel Levinas and Miroslav Volf" The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics no.55(2023) : 105-131.
Hong, Chang-hyun. Posthuman Era, Christian Ethical Response to Becoming-Cyborg: Focusing on Emmanuel Levinas and Miroslav Volf. The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics, 55, 105-131.
Hong, Chang-hyun. Posthuman Era, Christian Ethical Response to Becoming-Cyborg: Focusing on Emmanuel Levinas and Miroslav Volf. The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics. 2023; 55 105-131.
Hong, Chang-hyun. Posthuman Era, Christian Ethical Response to Becoming-Cyborg: Focusing on Emmanuel Levinas and Miroslav Volf. 2023; 55 : 105-131.
Hong, Chang-hyun. "Posthuman Era, Christian Ethical Response to Becoming-Cyborg: Focusing on Emmanuel Levinas and Miroslav Volf" The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics no.55(2023) : 105-131.
