PHENOMENOLOGY AS A POSTHUMAN PHILOSOPHY Can phenomenology be considered as a posthuman philosophy, I asked myself? (Posthuman philosophy being a contemporary philosophy that does not rely on ancient Greek metaphysics for its foundational principles of knowledge. Classical Western philosophy, i.e. scholasticism, placed emphasis on reason as the distinguishing quality of mind that separated the human being from the animal being. Without denying reason, phenomenology specifies the human being as a self- conscious actor 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.”) I had been taught, throughout my academic philosophical formation, that classical metaphysics is a necessary constituent of Western philosophy. However, since the modern era techno-digital thought has been suggested as the better approach according to some thinkers, which caused me to wonder if techno- digital thought was but a different type of philosophy and not the physical discipline many understood it to be. I concluded that techno-digital thought was not a philosophy. Rather, techno- digital thought depends upon a supporting philosophical stance to be intelligible to human beings. That being the case, it appears to me that the on-going classical (Western) philosophical attempts seeking to preserve a traditional “human” philosophy are futile in the contemporary world which is in the process of leaving its Hellenistic epistemological foundations. Further, seeking technological and digital foundations for knowledge (in place of a philosophical foundation) is an understandable, but misguided, effort, I suggest. A techno-digital knowledge legitimately describes a type of knowledge but techno-digital thinking does not explain knowledge in light of consciousness. That is, in light of an attitude of con scientia. Human consciousness, explained through a phenomenological philosophical stance, is more appropriate in this enterprise as humanity enters a “posthuman” stage of evolutionary development leaving its Hellenistic roots aside. Attempts within classical Western philosophy at preserving (or, fossilizing perhaps) inherited knowledge of the human being are not adequate in light of contemporary needs. Although rooted in experience, they rely on an outdated philosophy of Platinic idealism, that tell us nothing of what our future world will or should be like. The task of a phenomenological philosophy is to