Transhumanism in the Year of Our Lord, Pt. 2 | Episode III

New Humanists

Jonathan and Ryan continue their discussion of Alan Jacobs’s book The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis. This book stars C.S. Lewis, Simone Weil, W.H. Auden, Jacques Maritain, and T.S. Eliot, and on this episode of New Humanists, your hosts continue to tease out the implications for our current transhumanist moment, hitting on technology, education, the family, and power. This is the second part of a two-part look into the Jacobs book.

Alan Jacobs’s The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780190864651

Cicero’s Pro Archia Poeta: https://amzn.to/3phQwS1

Free in Latin: https://la.wikisource.org/wiki/Pro_A._Licinio_Archia_poeta

Free in English: https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0019%3Atext%3DArch.

The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity in Latin: https://archive.org/details/MN5140ucmf_2/page/n71/mode/2up

The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity in English: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0324.htm

Simone Weil’s The Iliad or the Poem of Force: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780820463612

Free in French: https://teuwissen.ch/imlift/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Weil-L_Iliade_ou_le_poeme_de_la_force.pdf

Free in English: http://www.holoka.com/pdf-files/weil.pdf

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