Posthuman transformation in ancient Mediterranean thought : becoming angels and demons /
There is not just a desire but a profound human need for enhancement - the irrepressible yearning to become better than ourselves. Today, enhancement is often conceived of in terms of biotechnical intervention: genetic modification, prostheses, implants, drug therapy - even mind uploading. The theme...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Angels, daimones, and the modern thirst for transformation
- Hesiod and daimonification in the archaic and classical periods
- Empedocles as daimon
- Plato and the moralization of daimonification
- Daimonification in Xenocrates, Plutarch, Apuleius, and Maximus of Tyre
- Moses angelified in Philo of Alexandria
- Origen, angelification, and the angelified Jesus
- Plotinus as a living daimon
- The angelification of Zostrianos
- Conclusion : Advent or apocalypse?
