期刊名称：Spirituality of a Personality: Methodology, Theory and Practice
印刷版ISSN：2220-6310
出版年度：2012
期号：736
页码：200-217
出版社：Publishing House of the Volodymyr Dahl East Ukrainian National University
摘要：This paper considers human self-understanding and identity formation as a fluid process significantly impacted by contextual realities. Current contextual realities include the philosophical assumptions of post-modernity which profoundly shift the assumptive base from which human self-understanding flows. Among the features of post-modernity are: 1. Erosion of the sense of a timeless authentic core to selfhood; 2. Collapse of classical metaphysics; 3. Breakdown of meta-narratives; 4. Valuing of nature over history; and 5. Intensive challenges to Theodicy. These post-modern vantage points not only challenge our understanding of time, space, and order, they significantly challenge our understanding of human identity The formerly solid and stable self, whether understood as core of personhood given by God, or as a socially constructed ego relatively stable over time has collapsed. In its place we now see selfhood as fluid, liminal, and continually reshaped by the relationships in which one participates. These changes are mediated by new and pervasive technologies of simulation, tele-presence, and electronic intensification. This electronic and digital saturation of life has profoundly changed our social and psychological experience of time and space, the real and the simulated, the serious and the entertaining. In this study I intend to examine the specific effect of technology upon evolving selfhood within post-modernity, from the vantage point of Spirituality This paper will provide insights around the potential for technology to both de-center but also re-center human experience and human identity. I propose that in moving away from Ontology toward praxis, in re-examining the nature of memory, as well as demonstrating the possibility of new forms of mutuality, the technological post-modern world we inhabit can strengthen hope and human possibility
