Historical Ontology and Critique of the Transhumanist Educational Consciousness
Historical Ontology and Critique of the Transhumanist Educational Consciousness

Author(s): Marius Markuckas
Subject(s): Ontology
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Historical ontology; critique; transhumanist; educational consciousness;
Summary/Abstract: Some prominent thinkers of the 20th century have pointed out the strong influence philosophical ideas of modernity had on the cultural structure of the contemporary world, and the way they framed the social and political agenda, as well as anthropology (e.g., see Adorno, Horkheimer 2002; Illich 2000; Heidegger 1977; Foucault 1977, Agamben 1998). These ideas enshrined the ideal of perfecting the human and promoted the flourishing of the consciousness, which can be described as ‘educational’. All these thinkers emphasized—albeit in their specific way—the ‘impactual’ nature of such a consciousness emerging from the project of modernity and manifesting itself as a belief in the omnipotence of reality-transforming scientific and technological knowledge, as well as the human as an inseparable part of reality.

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