• Faust's Bargain Debasement

  • Apr 18 2023
  • Length: 1 hr and 20 mins
  • Podcast

Faust's Bargain Debasement

  • Summary

  • In this episode, Kale and I discuss the final pages of The Abolition of Man. In a world allegedly without objective values, what conditions the conditioners? Chesterton’s idea of play and rules providing freedom; the reality that a value-free neutrality does not exist; trans-humanism and post-humanism; the dismembering of nature and disenchantment; the magician’s bargain: how the last step toward the abolition of man is unlike every prior step; the common ancestry of science and magic; how seeing through everything is the same as not to see.

    The Abolition of Man - C.S. Lewis

    After Humanity: A Guide to C.S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man - Michael Ward

    Will the Future Be Human? - Yuval Noah Harari

    Faustian bargain, Britannica.com

    The Freedom of Boundaries in G.K. Chesterton - Zak Schmoll

    Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraphs 675-676: "The Church's ultimate trial"

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