The Outline of Communal ‘Ars Moriendi’ in Egalitarian Transhumanism
ETHICS IN PROGRESS December 23, 2022 DOI: 10.14746/eip.2022.2.3 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Keywords | Transhumanism Happiness Ideology Democracy Humanity Politics Environmental ethics The good life Utopia Law and economics Epistemology Aesthetics |
| Key points | Proposes that an egalitarian, transhumanist art of dying can be supported by technologies such as anesthetics, psychedelics, virtual reality, and good death machines, requiring a deeply democratic society. |
Abstract
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.