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Byung-Chul Han on the instability and lifelessness of digital outrage - Not-so-light comedy
Thomas Hibbs on the casual nihilism in Woody Allen’s films - Economics rightly understood
Herman E. Daly on how modern economics has little to do with oikonomia - Love isn’t a technique
Christian Smith on how we become more fully human when we enhance the personhood of other - Making melody to the Lord with all your heart
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In this October 2022 lecture, Dr. Jens Zimmermann reflects on why a defense of personhood is a crucial task for the future of humanity. A radical change in the understanding of anthropology is already becoming mainstream, he says, in which human life is being redefined in technological-computational terms. It is becoming less strange to many that human nature and relations are increasingly defined by and subservient to technology. Zimmermann illustrates examples of this reductionism; explores the origins, teachings, and effects of this vision of humanity; and argues for a recovery of a robust personhood that can resist this redefinition.
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Guests on Volume 168
- BRIAN BROCK, author of Some New World: Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular Age, on science as a human endeavor
- FR. LUKE BELL, author of author of Truth in Person, on the relational nature of knowing truth
- PETER HARRISON, author of Some New World: Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular Age, on science as a human endeavor
- KATHERINE CALLOWAY, contributor to Art Seeking Understanding, on Francis Bacon, George Herbert, and poetic knowledge
- BRENT STRAWN, contributor to Art Seeking Understanding, on poetry as Divine discourse in the Old Testament
- PETROC WILLEY, author of Light from Alexandria: Recovering a Vision for Christian Paideia for Education & Formation, on spiritual formation in the early Alexandrine church