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Cohen, Signe

 
9781438496627: I, Yantra: Exploring Self and Selflessness in Ancient Indian Robot Tales
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ISBN 10: 1438496621 ISBN 13: 9781438496627
Casa editrice: State Univ of New York Pr, 2024

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What does it mean to be human? I, Yantra examines ancient Indian narratives about robots and mechanically constructed beings to explore how their Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist authors approached this question. Making translations of many of these texts available in English for the first time, author Signe Cohen argues that they shed considerable light on South Asian religious notions of humanity, self, and agency. She also documents connections between ancient and modern responses to the ethical problems of what precisely constitutes a sentient being and what rights such a being should have. Situated at the intersection of humanities and bioethics, this cross-disciplinary study will be of interest to scholars of South Asian languages and literature as well as specialists in religion and technology.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Signe Cohen is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Missouri. She is the author of Textual Criticism and Sacred Texts and Text and Authority in the Older Upani?ads and the editor of The Upani?ads: A Complete Guide.

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Editore
State Univ of New York Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2024
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1438496621
ISBN 13 
9781438496627
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
296
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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