Faust's Bargain Debasement
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In this episode, Kale and I discuss the final pages of The Abolition of Man. In a world allegedly without objective values, what conditions the conditioners? Chesterton’s idea of play and rules providing freedom; the reality that a value-free neutrality does not exist; trans-humanism and post-humanism; the dismembering of nature and disenchantment; the magician’s bargain: how the last step toward the abolition of man is unlike every prior step; the common ancestry of science and magic; how seeing through everything is the same as not to see.
The Abolition of Man - C.S. Lewis
After Humanity: A Guide to C.S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man - Michael Ward
Will the Future Be Human? - Yuval Noah Harari
Faustian bargain, Britannica.com
The Freedom of Boundaries in G.K. Chesterton - Zak Schmoll
Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraphs 675-676: "The Church's ultimate trial"
Chapters
1. Intro (00:00:00)
2. Faust's Bargain Debasement (00:00:48)
3. Outro (01:19:03)
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