https://fp.waik.stronazen.pl:443//index.html?id=1568 Index de death fr 0 https://fp.waik.stronazen.pl:443//3634-2402-17.html The article discusses the transhumanist and Catholic perspectives on death and immortality within the speculation on the rise of a postmortal society, and asks the question if Catholics have the right to reject immortalist technologies. To address this problem, I first outline the ideas and technology leading to the rise of a postmortal society, and accept Richard K. Morgan’s Altered Carbon as a counterfactual scenario. Further, the naturalistic and Catholic understandings of death are compared, and it is shown that despite superficial similarities, they are fundamentally different. Finally, I consider insights from the current debates on end-of-life issues, such as euthanasia and the right to die, since some of the reasons and motivations behind choosing to die will be different in the postmortal society. The analysis allows to provide a set of arguments and problems for further consideration when it comes to the rejection of immortalist technologies. Fri, 20 Dec 2019 14:59:11 +0100 Fri, 20 Dec 2019 15:00:53 +0100 https://fp.waik.stronazen.pl:443//3634-2402-17.html https://fp.waik.stronazen.pl:443//3528-2401-04.html This paper will address René Girard’s critique of the “humanization of nothingness” in modern Western philosophy. I will first explain how the “desire for death” is related to a phenomenon that Girard refers to as “obstacle addiction.” Second, I will point out how mankind’s desire for death and illusory will to self-divinization gradually tend to converge within the history of modern Western humanism. In particular, I will show how this convergence between self-destruction and self-divinization gradually takes shape through the evolution of the concept of “the negative” from Hegel to Kojève, Sartre and Camus. Finally, we shall come to see that in Girard’s view “the negative” has tended to become an ever-preoccupying and unacknowledged symptom of mankind’s addiction to “model/obstacles” of desire.  Tue, 03 Dec 2019 17:04:35 +0100 Tue, 03 Dec 2019 17:13:45 +0100 https://fp.waik.stronazen.pl:443//3528-2401-04.html