{"id":7675,"date":"2023-04-19T21:01:55","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T02:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doxaweb.com\/blog\/?p=7675"},"modified":"2023-04-19T21:01:57","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T02:01:57","slug":"fausts-bargain-debasement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doxaweb.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/19\/fausts-bargain-debasement\/","title":{"rendered":"Faust&#8217;s Bargain Debasement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"buzzsprout-player-12678716\"><\/div><script src=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/996733\/12678716-faust-s-bargain-debasement.js?container_id=buzzsprout-player-12678716&#038;player=small\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>My friend <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCzWMTd6--C7D-HvWFly-hiQ\/featured\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kale Zelden<\/a><\/strong> and I discuss the final pages of <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cslewis.com\/us\/books\/paperback\/the-abolition-of-man\/9780060652944\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Abolition of Man<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. In a world allegedly without objective values, what conditions the conditioners? Chesterton\u2019s 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;\u00a0 the magician\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Show notes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/25825420-the-abolition-of-man?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>The Abolition of Man<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0&#8211; C.S. Lewis<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/57903903-after-humanity?ref=nav_sb_ss_2_14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">After Humanity: A Guide to C.S. Lewis&#8217;s The Abolition of Man<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; Michael Ward<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/hL9uk4hKyg4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Will the Future Be Human?<\/a><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>&#8211; Yuval Noah Harari<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Faustian bargain,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Faustian-bargain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Britannica.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/anunexpectedjournal.com\/the-freedom-of-boundaries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Freedom of Boundaries<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>in G.K. Chesterton &#8211; Zak Schmoll<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Catechism of the Catholic Church,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/archive\/ENG0015\/__P1V.HTM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>paragraphs 675-676<\/strong><\/a>:\u00a0 &#8220;The Church&#8217;s ultimate trial&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The music in the introduction and close of this podcast is provided by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/denniscrommett.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Dennis Crommett<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Kale Zelden and I discuss the final pages of The Abolition of Man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,26,33,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cs-lewis","category-human-life","category-moral-life","category-podcasts"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Faust&#039;s Bargain Debasement &#8211; 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