Over the summer I finally took the plunge, and decided to look into what appeared the darkness of 'transhumanism'. I had overcome my initial response (part religious programming, part pro team human) to be afraid, and choose ignorance over truth and knowing.
Now having move into camp pro-progress and development (what I am now describing as an end to the 20th centuries self-improvement/personal development, into the 21st centuries self-enhancement/personal evolution), I found myself talking about recreating the Garden of Eden here on earth. Or at least providing a north star to aim for.
This post has provided me with a necessary critique of the pitfalls in my thinking in terms of paradise and the slippery slope of perfection and stasis.
Lots of useful and interesting stuff here. Just one quick observation for now. Not all Gods (not all theisms) are Platonic. And not all theistic accounts of perfection are Platonic. For example, God could be perfect simply by the grace of attribution — perfection, from the perspective of the devotee, can be that which God is, even in dynamicism. And to say such perfection isn’t really perfection would be merely to privilege competing theologies. Sometimes the “perfect” lunch is less about conceivable capacity to imagine better and more about altogether different concerns — more esthetic rather than epistemic.
Over the summer I finally took the plunge, and decided to look into what appeared the darkness of 'transhumanism'. I had overcome my initial response (part religious programming, part pro team human) to be afraid, and choose ignorance over truth and knowing.
Now having move into camp pro-progress and development (what I am now describing as an end to the 20th centuries self-improvement/personal development, into the 21st centuries self-enhancement/personal evolution), I found myself talking about recreating the Garden of Eden here on earth. Or at least providing a north star to aim for.
This post has provided me with a necessary critique of the pitfalls in my thinking in terms of paradise and the slippery slope of perfection and stasis.
Lots of useful and interesting stuff here. Just one quick observation for now. Not all Gods (not all theisms) are Platonic. And not all theistic accounts of perfection are Platonic. For example, God could be perfect simply by the grace of attribution — perfection, from the perspective of the devotee, can be that which God is, even in dynamicism. And to say such perfection isn’t really perfection would be merely to privilege competing theologies. Sometimes the “perfect” lunch is less about conceivable capacity to imagine better and more about altogether different concerns — more esthetic rather than epistemic.
Thank you for making this cogent and informative post.