The origins of social democracy have been traced to the 1860s, with the rise of the first major working-class party in Europe, the General German Workers' Association (ADAV) founded by Ferdinand Lassa ...
Liberal democracies usually have universal suffrage, granting all adult citizens the right to vote regardless of race, gender or property ownership. Historically, however, some countries regarded as l ...
Hughes has identified 15 "left futurist" or "left techno-utopian" trends and projects that could be incorporated into democratic transhumanism:AfrofuturismAssistive technology-enabled disabled peopleB ...
The word suffering is sometimes used in the narrow sense of physical pain, but more often it refers to mental or emotional pain, or more often yet to pain in the broad sense, i.e. to any unpleasant fe ...
Abolitionism was primarily inspired by Jeremy Bentham’s utilitarian ethic. David Pearce’s abolitionist manifesto, “The Hedonistic Imperative”, serves as an inspiration for the group’s theories.Ma ...
The movement can be seen as part of a rising tide of English working-class discontent in the early 19th century. An agricultural variant of Luddism, centering on the breaking of threshing machines, oc ...
A major critic of technology was German philosopher Martin Heidegger. In The Question Concerning Technology (1953), Heidegger posited that the modern technological "mode of Being" was one which viewed ...
Bioconservatism (a portmanteau word combining "biology" and "conservatism") is a stance of hesitancy about technological development especially if it is perceived to threaten a given social order. Str ...
General form of this type of argument:N is natural.Therefore, N is good or right.U is unnatural.Therefore, U is bad or wrong.In some contexts, the use of the terms of "nature" and "natural" can be vag ...
The philosopher Nick Bostrom classifies risks according to their scope and intensity. He considers risks that are at least global in scope and "endurable" in intensity to be global catastrophic risks. ...
In 1938, Buckminster Fuller introduced the word ephemeralization to describe the trends of "doing more with less" in chemistry, health and other areas of industrial development. In 1946, Fuller publis ...
Much of the language used for describing congenital conditions predates genomic mapping, and structural conditions are often considered separately from other congenital conditions. It is now known tha ...
The term biocentrism encompasses all environmental ethics that “extend the status of moral object from human beings to all living things in nature.” Biocentric ethics calls for a rethinking of the ...
Science and technology is a term of art used to encompass the relationship between science human and technology. It frequently appears within titles of academic disciplines (science and technology stu ...
Perfectionism, as a moral theory, has a long history and has been addressed by influential philosophers. Aristotle stated his conception of the good life (eudaimonia). He taught that politics and poli ...
