released 8/5/2024
Why is Western culture welcoming a right to die, and how do we get beyond the fundamental nihilism of modernity? In a November 2022 lecture at the Pontifical John Paul II Institute, Roberta Bayer draws on the work of George Parkin Grant (1918–1988) to argue that our “culture of death” must be countered with an understanding of reality based in love, redemptive suffering, and a recognition of limitations to individual control. Technological rationality, Bayer says, denies the reality of good and evil; it is directed toward control, not thought. But it is not the final account of what we are as human beings, and it cannot satisfy the human soul.
This lecture is provided courtesy of the Pontifical John Paul II Institute on Marriage and the Family.
33 minutes
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