Young Rhee (South Korea)

Contemporary Philosophical Café (Panel discussion)

In the panel we discuss about the nature and mode of contemporary philosophical café. There will be about ten panelists from all over the world who examine the current state and future of philosophical café in their countries or do theoretical inquiry on it. The result of the panel will be published in the special issue of the journal Philosophical Practice and Counseling, vol. 10 (December, 2020) and in a Book.

Philosophical counseling based on AI (Lecture)

I deal with the reason we consider the philosophical counseling based on AI with the focus on caring robot and posthuman society. 

Being and Relation in the Posthuman Age (Lecture)

What will be the posthuman society? As usual, there are two prospects: the pessimistic view and the optimistic view. According to pessimistic view, as technologies advance emerge new beings called as transhuman with enhanced intelligence and physical power, and extremely long lifespan and they will dominate humans. On the other hand, according to optimistic view, technology will benefit humans, so humans evolve via transhuman to posthuman with smart machines. There are complex issues tangled together in the dispute between the rival views, especially such as the natural vs. artificial beings, human dignity and equality, and meaning of life. The aim of this lecture is to examine being and relation in posthuman age in the point of Nietzsche's philosophy. I examine transhuman as a typical being of posthuman age and ressentiment as its relation respectively. Nietzsche has influenced the rise of transhumanism and posthumanism, as can be seen from direct or indirect confessions from pioneers of them, though there are debates about whether the influence is real or superficial. By paying particular attention to Nietzsche's idea of Master and Slave, ressentiment, and Overman (Übermensch), I contend that (a) in the posthuman age new classes will emerge, which correspond to Master and Slave, (b) there will be a new ressentiment of Slaves toward their Masters, and (c) Overman as a creator of new value will be required in order to solve the problem by ressentiment.