Buddhism and Our Posthuman Future.
New human enhancement technologies will radically challenge traditional religious understandings of the human project. But among the world's faiths, Buddhists will have some distinct advantages adapting to and contributing to thinking about, a posthuman future. Buddhism and human enhancement have so...
| Publicado en: | Sophia Vol. 58; no. 4; pp. 653 - 663 |
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Springer Nature
Dec2019
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