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Proposals for Moral Education in the Posthuman Era

  • PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE
  • 2024, (46), pp.313~335
  • DOI : 10.33639/ptc.2024..46.013
  • Publisher : Research Institute for East-West Thought
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : November 4, 2024
  • Accepted : November 27, 2024
  • Published : November 30, 2024

Lee, Yeonhee 1 Song, Sun-Young 2

1경상국립대학교 교육연구원
2경상국립대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper aims to explore the conception of humanity that should be developed in the coexistence with posthumans and to propose directions of moral education to cultivate human qualities. Given the speed and trend of development of high-tech technologies that transform the human mind or body, the emergence of unfamiliar beings(i.e., posthuman) seems to be an irreversible flow. However, if a large number of unfamiliar beings appear in the future, there is a high possibility that the existing human understanding will be questioned or denied. These doubts and denials can eventually lead to skepticism about the value order and norms devoted to existing human understanding. To respond to potential conflicts between humans and posthumans, therefore, this paper would deal with three main aspects: identifying the nature of posthumans, specifying the characteristics and ethical issues of the posthuman era, and proposing common living conditions from humans to posthumans by suggesting directions for moral education that can help resolve ethical issues while preserving these conditions.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.