KIM STAJE SIĘ JEDNOSTKA LUDZKA W DWUDZIESTYM PIERWSZYM WIEKU? Pytania i hipotezy
What Becomes of a Human Individual in the Twenty First Century? Questions and Hypotheses
Author(s): Kazimierz KrzysztofekSubject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Psychology, Sociology
Published by: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II - Instytut Jana Pawła II, Wydział Filozofii
Keywords: person; individual; individualization; individuation; post-modernity; digital turn
Summary/Abstract: The author scrutinizes two issues concerning the condition of the human being in the period of post-industrial social change incorporating, in particular, the digital turn. Firstly: To what extent a twenty fi rst century human being still is—or has a chance to be—a person in the sense worked out by philosophy, anthropology and other social sciences, namely, a being which is distinct from the worlds of objects and nature? Secondly: What becomes of the human individual as a social being, and to what extent does a human individual still preserve her social nature? Can we still speak of a human society, or should we rather be speaking about threats to its very existence? Are we still dealing with a society, or rather with an unspecifi ed post-society whose members are both human and non-human actors? The author focuses on the latter aspect of the problem, addressing above all the question of who homo digitalis is.
Journal: Ethos. Kwartalnik Instytutu Jana Pawła II KUL
- Issue Year: 29/2016
- Issue No: 4
- Page Range: 152-175
- Page Count: 24
- Language: Polish
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