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Program in Philosophy, Science and Society in the Contemporary World

Debate on the crucial challenges of philosophy in the contemporary world

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Syllabus
Academic Program

1. Knowledge and science: current problems. Transhumanism

  • Introduction to the philosophy of technology
  • The philosophy of technology: definition, methodology and trends
  • Transhumanism: A diverse Movement
  • Critical Elements of Transhumanism
  • Life as an absolute value
  • Mechanism and technological determinism
  • Eugenics
  • An ultra-secularist faith
  • Towards a new approach
  • The techno-scientific imperative and human technologies
  • Integral Transhumanism
 

2. Social and political thought

  • Methodological hypotheses
  • General categories of the social and the political
    • Socio-political reality and the science of the social and the political
    • Social and Political Metaphysics (Protology): The One and the Multiple
    • Holism and individualism, organicism and mechanism
    • Some basic structures of political unity: representation
  • General categories of the legal
    • Elements of the Law (Nómos) and Types of Legal Thinking
    • A fundamental paradox of the interconnection between law and politics
  • General categories of the historical as a place (public square) of the social and the political
    • Experiences of time and categories of a Historical
    • The philosophy of history and the idea of progress
  • Historical modalities of the formation of political unity
 

3. Technology, economy and society

  • Vulnerability: A radical experience of the human condition
  • Transcending vulnerability: Transhumanism
  • Descending into Common Vulnerability: Posthumanism
  • Relationality and environmental and organizational responsability