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Transhumanism and Virtue

Max More

Changesurfer Radio

Posted: Sep 25, 2010

Dr. J. chats with Max More, founder of the Extropy Institute and one of the founders of contemporary transhumanism. They discuss the relationship of transhumanism and religion, virtue theory versus utilitarianism and the ethical and political underpinnings of the extropian worldview. Part 1 of 2.

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postfuturist • • Sep 25, 2010

Can't think of anything more philosophically (and naturally beyond philosophy) important than this. It's a tough one; just a few months ago a French economist was quoted in the NYT (in discussing Greek economic woes): "economics has nothing to do with virtue", and at this time he is quite right. Dislocation-- a sociologist might say anomie-- is the word that comes to mind. Traditions are reduced, leaving youths in particular bereft of moral compasses (for instance the lack of enough fathers for ghetto-dwelling boys).
This is a hard one to figure-- which makes it so important. Frankly, I have a difficult time differentiating between ethics and aesthetics... what is that is arbitrary and what represents more value.

postfuturist • • Sep 25, 2010

I don't have what it takes to teach in higher ed, but high school philosophy would be very interesting; to start the students out on day One with Descartes' truism we think therefore we exist, for if we can doubt, then existence has a significance in proportion to the intensity of the doubt. The next step in HS philosophy class would be Machiavelli, who wrote in chap. 15 of The Prince that the good must adopt wicked methods otherwise the good would be destroyed and thus wickedness would entirely triumph. The next week I'd go with Socrates. Where to go to after that would take more thought. Perhaps Nietzsche.

iPlant • United Kingdom • Sep 26, 2010

very enjoyable conversation. and part 2...?

jellyfisher • Austrailia • Nov 20, 2010

I can't believe the useful informartion I am finding here.

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