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On Dignity -The Concept of Dignity for the Era of the Posthuman and Technology-

  • PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE
  • 2021, (37), pp.75~104
  • DOI : 10.33639/ptc.2021..37.004
  • Publisher : Research Institute for East-West Thought
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : October 30, 2021
  • Accepted : November 24, 2021
  • Published : November 30, 2021

Oh, Heung Myung 1

1동국대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This paper is an attempt to explicate the meaning and basis of human dignity through the historical overview of the interrelation between human rights and dignity, and further, to consider the question whether the concept of human dignity can be appliable also to new human species modified by technology or personified objects like AI, which are to be conceptualized into the posthuman, from the philosophical perspective. In this connection, the paper addresses the following two theses: first, has the humans dignity? If so, what does it mean to have dignity and what is its basis? Second, if something can meet the conditions of dignity, can also the posthuman as artificially enhanced human beings or personified objects with artificial intelligence have dignity?

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