by W.D. James C.S. Lewis was a realist in a double sense: he understood the reality of power and he understood the reality of morality. In 1944, writing in The Abolition of Man, he saw that we already stood on the far side of the precipice of a post-human (his term) or transhuman future. He … Continue reading Post-humanism and the Regime of the Heartless (Politics of the Heart, Part 4)

by W.D. James Our hearts know things. Several times in the New Testament, the Apostle Paul states that the natural law is ‘written on the heart.’ That formulation itself is significant in light of the central role of the ‘heart’ in classical psychology as we have explored it in the first two essays of this … Continue reading Written on the Heart (Politics of the Heart, Part 3)