The Outline of Communal ‘Ars Moriendi’ in Egalitarian Transhumanism
The Outline of Communal ‘Ars Moriendi’ in Egalitarian Transhumanism
Author(s): Łukasz Paweł PolowczykSubject(s): Ethics / Practical Philosophy
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: Transhumanism; ars moriendi; egalitarianism; psychedelics; freedom; happiness; the ideology of dying; the extended body-mind;
Summary/Abstract: This paper outlines the proposal for an egalitarian, transhumanist, and communal version of ars moriendi that should be coherent and meet the consequentialist criteria of the principle of minimizing anti-values and maximizing values, especially the ethical values of freedom and happiness. Transhuman-ist augmented dying (AD) refers to the extended body-mind, free from harmful religious and political ideologies. At present, a feasible art of dying can be systematically supported by anesthetics and psy-chedelics (entheogens), computer games, virtual reality, and good death machines. Its egalitarian form requires a deeply democratic society, and its progress may need a transition to a type 1 society on the Kardashev scale.
Journal: Ethics in Progress
- Issue Year: 13/2022
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 25-41
- Page Count: 17
- Language: English
