postsuffering

English

Alternative forms

post-suffering

Etymology

From post- +‎ suffering.

Adjective

postsuffering (not comparable)

1. After the eradication of involuntary suffering; in a time when there is full control of suffering in biological systems.
   • 2016 November 23, Stephen West, “Episode #094 - Transcript”, in Philosophize This!‎^[1]:

     What metric do we use in a post-suffering world?

   • 2017, Andrew Pilsch, Transhumanism: Evolutionary Futurism and the Human Technologies of Utopia, University of Minnesota Press, page 106:

     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.

   • 2020, Ryan K. Bolger, Kutter Callaway, Techno-Sapiens in a Networked Era, Wipf and Stock Publishers, page 122:

     In fact, a model of transhumanism, identified as postsuffering transhumanism or abolitionism, illuminates connections between values of hedonistic utilitarianism and transhumanism.