THS 11 Type post Author James A. Herrick Date August 25, 2020 CategoriesBioethics Tagged , artificial intelligence, Big Brother, biotechnology, C.S. Lewis, genetic engineering, George Bernard Shaw, history, J. D. Bernal, J.B.S. Haldane, Olaf Stapledon, regenerative medicine, Silicon Valley, That Hideous Strength, The Abolition of Man, transhumanism C. S. Lewis and Critical Reactions to Transhumanism James A. Herrick August 25, 2020 Bioethics 6 I will briefly review two prominent voices in the opposition camp who reflect concerns at the heart of C. S. Lewis’s own case. Read More ›
THS-12 Type post Author James A. Herrick Date August 21, 2020 CategoriesBioethicsHuman ExceptionalismTechnology Tagged , autonomy, biotechnology, C.S. Lewis, dystopia, Francis Galton, George Bernard Shaw, human nature, individual freedom, J. D. Bernal, J.B.S. Haldane, Julian Savulescu, liberalism, Oxford University, pharmaceuticals, posthumanism, Prozac, That Hideous Strength, The Abolition of Man, transhumanism The Abolition of Man and the Advent of the Posthuman James A. Herrick August 21, 2020 Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Technology 9 In Julian Savulescu’s view, rapidly advancing brain science will provide some of the data necessary to shaping a better human race. Read More ›
C. S. Lewis Type post Author Michael D. Aeschliman Date August 16, 2020 CategoriesBioethics Tagged , Abraham Lincoln, Aldous Huxley, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, Brave New World, Clarence Darrow, Dante, Darwinian theory, David Hume, Deborah Blum, Frederick Douglass, Friedrich Nietzsche, From Darwin to Hitler, Fyodor Dostoevsky, G.K. Chesterton, Ghost Hunters, J. D. Bernal, J.B.S. Haldane, Jacques Maritain, Jane Austen, John Dewey, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Lord Acton, Malcolm Muggeridge, Marquis de Sade, Marxists, Michael Polanyi, Pierre Duhem, Samuel Johnson, Social Darwinism, Stanley L. Jaki, Superman, T.S. Eliot, That Hideous Strength, The Odyssey, Thomas Carlyle, William Jennings Bryan, William Shakespeare, Yuval Harari That Hideous Strength — C. S. Lewis’s Fantasia of Consciousness at 75 Michael D. Aeschliman August 16, 2020 Bioethics 14 The novel is a narrative, fictional version of a philosophical anatomy of the satanic dimension and implication of much modern history from 1914 onwards. Read More ›
