New Humanists

Transhumanism in the Year of Our Lord, Pt. 2 | Episode III

July 01, 2021 Ancient Language Institute Episode 3
New Humanists
Transhumanism in the Year of Our Lord, Pt. 2 | Episode III
Show Notes

Jonathan and Ryan continue their discussion of Alan Jacobs’s book The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis. This book stars C.S. Lewis, Simone Weil, W.H. Auden, Jacques Maritain, and T.S. Eliot, and on this episode of New Humanists, your hosts continue to tease out the implications for our current transhumanist moment, hitting on technology, education, the family, and power. This is the second part of a two-part look into the Jacobs book.


Alan Jacobs’s The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780190864651


Cicero’s Pro Archia Poeta: https://amzn.to/3phQwS1


Free in Latin: https://la.wikisource.org/wiki/Pro_A._Licinio_Archia_poeta


Free in English: https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0019%3Atext%3DArch.


The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity in Latin: https://archive.org/details/MN5140ucmf_2/page/n71/mode/2up


The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity in English: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0324.htm


Simone Weil’s The Iliad or the Poem of Force: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780820463612


Free in French: https://teuwissen.ch/imlift/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Weil-L_Iliade_ou_le_poeme_de_la_force.pdf


Free in English: http://www.holoka.com/pdf-files/weil.pdf


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