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Humanity in the Digital Age: The Challenges of Artificial Intelligence, Transhumanism, and Genetics /// The purpose of the book is to contribute to the formation of an appropriate philosophical and theological anthropology for the modern digital age. The author starts from the point of view that the task of critical (public) humanities is the defence of human being and humanity against development trends, doctrines and ideologies that threaten them. This mission and the potential of critical humanities are particularly important in the current technological age, when the humanity of a human being is under threat as radically as it has never been before, not only on a practical level but also on a principled and ideological level, on the level of the very understanding of humanity and the importance of its consideration as a value. With the development of artificial intelligence, digitalization and cognitive science, the humanistic understanding of human being is increasingly being called into question. This understanding is based on the idea of human being as a being for whom embodiment, aliveness and embodied freedom are essential, enabling him to live a self-determining existence. This understanding is increasingly displaced by the scientistic view of human being, who sees humans as a product of algorithms and data. In terms of the »human being-machine« relationship, scientism is dual-oriented: on the one hand, it promotes the understanding of a human as a machine, and on the other hand, the anthropomorphisation of machines, the understanding of machines as actually having some (specifically) human characteristics and capabilities. Keywords: philosophical anthropology, ethics, digitalization, artificial intelligence, the Internet, body, genetics, eugenics, transhumanism, mind-uploading, resonance, relationships, abortion.