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This is a book on what I understand to be exploratory of posthuman philosophy. It is not a book on posthumanism, but rather interprets the pre-existing philosophical developments that lead up to the phenomenon of posthumanity. Posthuman philosophy is a contemporary intellectual philosophy that does not rely on the principles of ancient Greek metaphysics for its foundational principles of knowledge. Classical Western philosophy, i.e. scholasticism, heavily influenced by Hellenistic thought placed emphasis on reason as the distinguishing quality of mind that separated the human being from the animal being. Without denying reason, phenomenology (a posthuman philosophy) specifies the human being as a self-conscious human agent who directs the evolution of its lived-in environment. By this self-conscious direction of their environment human agents have “surpassed” the humanism of the Renaissance as well as the humanism of the secular Western culture and now stands on the threshold of a new stage of the evolutionary process of human thought, hence the term “posthuman.”