Sunday, December 18, 2016

Superhumanism and Political Philosophy

Since Superhumanism connotes a post-Human historical period, any corresponding Political Philosophy can only be speculated about. Indeed, in such a society, e. g. extraterrestrial, currently unimaginable entities, etc., such a thing as political organization might even be a thing of the past. Still, one feature that is entailed in the concept is the prior achievement of a Humanist society.  Now, as has been previously discussed, that achievement consists in some version of Cosmopolitanism, i. e. of a Planetary society.  Accordingly, two presumed interpretations of the concept of Political Superhumanism are quite inadequate to it.  One, Naziism, is a regression to Tribalism, the other, Social Darwinism, the basic principle of which, Egoism, hardly transcends Human principles.  To the contrary, each of these exemplifies a dehumanization that Humanism has sought to overcome.

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