Philosophical Objections to Media Contexts of Terraforming
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Anna Sámelová
Abstract
This theoretical study focuses on terraforming in the context of the industrially created image of the world by the mainstream media and on philosophical objections to the terraforming activities of humanity. The first part discusses the specific nature of the spectacularism of media images, while the second part explains the paradigmatic change in media images. The third part then turns to the ethically grounded binarism of current philosophical reflections on human expansion into space. The purpose of this study is to consider objections to the mainstream media focus from the viewpoint of contemporary philosophy. The theoretical reflection is based on induction and deduction in order to point out the ambivalence of what humanity can do in the framework of progress in the sense of what it is capable of and in the sense of what is right.
Funding source: Agentúra na Podporu Výskumu a Vývoja
Award Identifier / Grant number: APVV-18-0103
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Research funding: This research was funded by the Slovak Research and Development Agency under contract no. APVV-18-0103: Paradigmatic Changes in the Understanding of Universe and Man from Philosophical, Theological, and Physical Perspectives.
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Declaration: Anna Sámelová as the author of the submitted manuscript qualifies as the author and has approved the submitted version. Her work is original and is not under consideration by any other journal. She has permission to reproduce any previously published material.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Cosmos and Humanity: Historical and Contemporary Paradigms of Understanding
- Research Articles
- Does God Micromanage the World? Learning about the Cosmos from the Book of Job
- Anthropomorphic Motifs in Ancient Greek Ideas on the Origin of the Cosmos
- The Meaning of Human Life in the Context of the Evolution of the Universe: V. I. Vernadsky and P. Teilhard De Chardin
- Pragmatist Empiricism (Towards a Conception of Human Being)
- A New Perspective on Humanity in the Cosmic Future: A Critical Reflection on Some Transhumanist Visions
- Conception of Human Being in Analytical Idealism: How Human and Cosmos are Interlinked Through Consciousness
- Challenges of Transhumanism for Virtue Ethics
- Whitehead’s Organic Conception of Humanity. Beyond Mechanistic Philosophy in an Age of Transhumanism
- Philosophical Objections to Media Contexts of Terraforming
- Book Review
- Plašienková, Z: Paradigmatické zmeny v chápaní kozmologickej a antropologickej problematiky: minulosť a súčasnosť
