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Online Lecture, March 19th, 2021 at 12:30pm Pacific Standard Time
Ashley Moyse, University of Oxford, will interrogate some of the foundational ideas of transhumanism, which despite their appeal to novelty, futurism, and human liberation, reveal themselves to be anti-human, offering both dissent and a call to pedagogy. Heeding William Stringfellow’s claim that dissent is a humanising action, Moyse will expose the failure of transhumanists to see human being rightly. Employing critical philosophy of technology, he will show how the modern imagination in general has been turned away from the real [world of life] and toward the fictional world of a future perfect of re-engineered and re-animated zeros and one, or sequences of qubits, which in turn leads to the construction of antihuman desires.
Concomitantly, while dissenting from the profane doctrine that perpetuates such desires, the lecture will point toward a schooling in and by Christ, a turn toward Christian traditions and their treatment of the body, in order to present a robust theological examination of the biological reality of being. Such reality will be illumined to demonstrate that the body—the physical word of the soul—is essential for unity. As modern theologians like Dietrich Bonhoeffer insist, the body is essential because it not only unites the human with its fellows, but also unites the human with God and the earth.
This lecture is part of the series Human Flourishing in a Technological Age, with lectures from John Behr, Thomas Fuchs, and others. Click here to see all the lecture titles and dates. The event series is sponsored by the Issachar Fund and presented by the Human Flourishing: A Christian Perspective project, which is directed by Prof. Jens Zimmermann and Dr. Michael Burdett. This series is done collaboration with Regent College.
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*Note: this live lecture is only available remotely via Zoom.