The Outline of Communal ‘Ars Moriendi’ in Egalitarian Transhumanism
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2022
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Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Faculty of Philosophy
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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.
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Transhumanism, ars moriendi, egalitarianism, psychedelics, happiness, the ideology of dying, the extended body-mind
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Ethics in Progress, 2022, Volume 13, Issue 2, s. 25-41.