by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) The embrace of our belonging to nature is an important step in restoring a sense of the sacred to our world, as we saw in my last essay, but it still does not go far enough. To achieve full withness in relation to our place in the … Continue reading Becoming what we are meant to be
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)
by W.D. James C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) was a dinosaur. In 1954, he took up the newly founded chair in Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University. The 56-year-old Lewis presented himself as a “dinosaur” to his audience; a representative of what he called “Old Western Culture” (Lewis 1969, 13). Lewis, an Ulster-born Irish Protestant, is … Continue reading The Assault on the Heart (Politics of the Heart, Part 2)
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