The Essence of Technology
“Men first sense what is necessary; then they attend to what is useful; afterwards, they notice what is comfortable; further on, they take delight in pleasure; thereafter,…
The Third Adam and the Modern “Higher” Self
The modern world is defined by the rise of a new self that is neither mind, nor body, nor a function of either, but an autonomous entity…
The Ideology of Transparency: Creating the New Sodom and Gomorrah
“Let us be straightforward and say that our age is not that of secrets, but of their opposite, transparency. There is even, more or less confusedly, an…
Political Alchemy: The Dangers and Temptations of Transformation to Perfection
The choice is as judicious as it is provocative in a time when all of us are threatened in our humanity, if not in our physical existence,…
What Is Human Dignity?
The word “dignity” is not particularly Christian. It has no special significance in the Scriptures and not much history as a theological concept. Only in the twentieth…
Salvation Through Science? Bacon’s New Atlantis and Transhumanism
The interplay between politics and science is certainly not a new phenomenon, but astonishing scientific advances in medicine and technology during the 20th century, and into the…
Voegelin Among the Machines: Teilhard de Chardin, Olaf Stapledon and the Millenarian Kernel of Transhumanism
This article is the first step towards a Voegelinian study of the history of the relationship between millenarianism and technology. In it I concentrate upon “transhumanism,” a…
The American Transhumanist and the Postmodern Conservative
Allergic to Crazy: Quick Thoughts on Politics, Education, and Culture, Rightly Understood. Peter Augustine Lawler. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press, 2014. Peter Lawler’s Allergic to…