postsuffering en · ADJ
Etymology
From post- + suffering.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) After the eradication of involuntary suffering; in a time when there is full control of suffering in biological systems.
This model of a postsuffering transhumanism is called “abolitionism,” a field organized around the manifesto, titled The Hedonistic Imperative, authored by utilitarian philosopher David Pearce.
2017, Andrew Pilsch, Transhumanism: Evolutionary Futurism and the Human Technologies of Utopia, University of Minnesota Press, page 106:In fact, a model of transhumanism, identified as postsuffering transhumanism or abolitionism, illuminates connections between values of hedonistic utilitarianism and transhumanism.
2020, Ryan K. Bolger, Kutter Callaway, Techno-Sapiens in a Networked Era, Wipf and Stock Publishers, page 122:What metric do we use in a post-suffering world?
2016 November 23, Stephen West, “Episode #094 - Transcript”, in Philosophize This!: