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- Title
Teknik İmkânlar Çağında Ölüm(süzlüğ)ün Dayanılmazlığı Üzerine.
- Authors
BAHADIR, Murat
- Abstract
As an undeniable reality, death has occupied the human agenda throughout history. In this process, depending on the changing culture and developing technology, man's relationship with death has varied (ranging from submitting to death to being immortal). From Ancient Greece to the modern age, man, who first attempted to understand nature and then to overcome it with developing science, aimed to become immortal by removing death, which is a part of nature, from his agenda. However, over time, the meaning of death, the importance of being immortal and how to achieve immortality have changed. Throughout history, human beings, fearing the irresistibility of the absence caused by death, have desired to reach the eternal existence that immortality would provide. Death has become a technical rather than a mystical phenomenon for human beings who have reached the age of technological metaverse from the age of mythical beliefs. Especially with the influence of transhumanism, people who believe they will get a better life in the future have desired to be immortal. However, it is controversial whether being immortal against the irresistibility of death will bring people to a better position. In this context, in this study, it is expressed that in the face of the idea of death, which is seen as an unbearable phenomenon during the long existence on earth, it is an intolerable situation like death for human beings to reach the targeted immortality with the developing technological possibilities. Accordingly, life and death are intertwined for humans who oscillate between two extremes regarding death. To live is to accept death from the beginning. Therefore, man must observe a certain balance in his relationship with death. Thus, death should neither wholly disappear from the human agenda nor occupy their life and thoughts. Human beings should build their relationship with death, which has both a social and an individual dimension, on a meaningful ground (culture) through a conscious thinking activity. At this point, the most excellent helper of man is the intellectual heritage that has reached from the past to the present.
- Subjects
IMMORTALITY of the body; DEATH &; psychology; SHARED virtual environments; TRANSHUMANISM; MYTHOLOGY
- Publication
Mavi Atlas, 2024, Vol 12, Issue 1, p147
- ISSN
2148-5232
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18795/gumusmaviatlas.1410968