HUMAN PERSON IN THE FEARS OF THE EMERGING TECHNOLOGICAL HUMANISM
It is adjudged that the human person properly develops through the expression of his or her cosmological essence, that is, the capacity of the individual to work or labour. It is on this philosophical conviction that this paper projects the philosophical understanding of the values of human relations within the means of production and commerce. Such an arrangement is perceived to be development with socio-economic opportunities occasioned by the operations of the values of human labour. The paper recognizes the fears of the dehumanizing or devaluing of human dignity and labour within the growing currencies of technological humanism. For the embrace and operation of technological humanism is where and when humans are becoming less relevant in the face of the applications and appreciations of technologies in every sector of socio-economic realities and civilizations of societies. Technologies are becoming human due to their applications in the means of production, and human persons are becoming redundant in the approaches to developmental issues. The human person is supposed to be defined by the works he or she performs. The individual is the works personified, but with the emergence of technological humanism, less attention is being drawn towards the human person and what he or she can do. This development is against the philosophical conception of the human person as an economic being and as a being of labour, who earns a living through the nature of his or her work and is duly paid for such work performed over time. Adopting expository and descriptive methods of analysis, the paper concludes that the human person should be very conscious not to create and sustain a culture of development centred on the absolute values and applications of technologies that will be detrimental to his or her ontological and even cosmological values, especially through his or her labour and rationality as a subject of lived experience and as the true agent of development
Keywords: Human Person, Development, Technologies, Technological Humanism, Human Labour