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I, Yantra
- Exploring Self and Selflessness in Ancient Indian Robot Tales
Engelsk Paperback
I, Yantra
- Exploring Self and Selflessness in Ancient Indian Robot Tales
Engelsk Paperback

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Argues that ancient yantra (robot) tales reveal how their Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain authors thought about the nature of humanity and our role in a cosmos filled with divine and natural forces.

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.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
296
ISBN-13:
9781438496627
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1438496621
Udg. Dato:
2 aug 2024
Længde:
20mm
Bredde:
151mm
Højde:
228mm
Forlag:
State University of New York Press
Oplagsdato:
2 aug 2024
Forfatter(e):
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