ABSTRACT

Human nature and issues that relate directly or even indirectly to it form the basic preoccupation of philosophical anthropology. The human person is both a product of culture and equally a creator of culture, which connects with or without mediation to the formation of newer communities with its antecedent challenges, gains and demands. The reality of the modern digital technologies especially in the media world has inevitably and concretely inaugurated a new culture that has both profound gains as well as immense challenges. This is indeed a case for philosophical anthropology. Things that have been considered ordinary in the past have today assumed extraordinary nature and cannot easily be ignored without terrible consequences. This paper insists that even with the new trend of digital technology, a proper utilisation of the new media, far from being inimical to the constitutive embodiment of the human nature will rather ennoble it and give it a more dignified meaning and value.