<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The author reflects on the issue of the value of human life in the contexts of current “posthuman” era. There is a host of evidence that the value of human for human beings themselves has been radically reduced or ignored, or replaced by other non-human values, and even neglected. The axiological crisis of humanity, as envisioned by Nietzsche, has become the existential and moral crisis of humanity today. No matter how contemporary technological culture challenges the traditional values, the ancient questions of “how to live?”, “what makes us happy?”, and “what makes life significant?” are still here with us and provide even greater challenges to every individual. The author points to pluralist ways of how to deal with these questions including the “stoic pragmatism” among them.</p></abstract>

The author reflects on the issue of the value of human life in the contexts of current “posthuman” era. There is a host of evidence that the value of human for human beings themselves has been radically reduced or ignored, or replaced by other non-human values, and even neglected. The axiological crisis of humanity, as envisioned by Nietzsche, has become the existential and moral crisis of humanity today. No matter how contemporary technological culture challenges the traditional values, the ancient questions of “how to live?”, “what makes us happy?”, and “what makes life significant?” are still here with us and provide even greater challenges to every individual. The author points to pluralist ways of how to deal with these questions including the “stoic pragmatism” among them.

On the value of human life

Ethics & Bioethics

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The author reflects on the issue of the value of human life in the contexts of current “posthuman” era. There is a host of evidence that the value of human for...

On the value of human life

Published Online: Jun 26, 2017

Page range: 85 - 95

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ebce-2017-0003

Keywords
human life, value, Konrad Liessmann, Bernard Stiegler, learning to live, stoic pragmatism

© 2017 Emil Višňovský, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

On the value of human life

Published Online: Jun 26, 2017

Page range: 85 - 95

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ebce-2017-0003

Keywordshuman life, value, Konrad Liessmann, Bernard Stiegler, learning to live, stoic pragmatism

© 2017 Emil Višňovský, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
human life, value, Konrad Liessmann, Bernard Stiegler, learning to live, stoic pragmatism