My friend Kale Zelden and I begin discussing the final chapter of The Abolition of Man. Topics include: slavery and freedom; the conquest of man over man; the flight from the reality of death; the world state as a surrogate for the Tao; eugenics, trans-humanism and post-humanism; man as raw material for the post-human project; the impact of World War I on the thinking of Lewis; and what a positive and humane technical progress could look like.
Show notes:
The Abolition of Man – C.S. Lewis
After Humanity: A Guide to C.S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man – Michael Ward
Learning in War Time – C.S. Lewis
On Living in an Atomic Age – C.S. Lewis – reprinted in a collection entitled Present Concerns: Journalistic Essays
Will the Future Be Human? – Yuval Noah Harari
The Screwtape Letters – C.S. Lewis
The Space Trilogy – C.S. Lewis
“Standing reserves” – Martin Heidegger
Miracles – C.S. Lewis
“Cover stories for a theft” – Eric Weinstein
The music in the introduction and close of this podcast is provided by Dennis Crommett.