postsuffering
English
Alternative forms
post-suffering
Etymology
post- + suffering
Adjective
postsuffering (not comparable)
- After the eradication of involuntary suffering; in a time when there is full control of suffering in biological systems.
- 2017, Andrew Pilsch, Transhumanism: Evolutionary Futurism and the Human Technologies of Utopia, University of Minnesota Press, page 106
- This model of a postsuffering transhumanism is called “abolitionism,” a field organized around the manifesto, titled The Hedonistic Imperative, authored by utilitarian philosopher David Pearce.
- 2020, Ryan K. Bolger and Kutter Callaway, Techno-Sapiens in a Networked Era, Wipf and Stock Publishers, page 122
- In fact, a model of transhumanism, identified as postsuffering transhumanism or abolitionism, illuminates connections between values of hedonistic utilitarianism and transhumanism.
- 2017, Andrew Pilsch, Transhumanism: Evolutionary Futurism and the Human Technologies of Utopia, University of Minnesota Press, page 106