C.S. Lewis, Technology, and Human Flourishing - Dr. Peter Kreeft
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- Watch as Dr. Peter Kreeft discuss C.S. Lewis, Technology, and Human Flourishing at ISI' most recent Dallas conference.
Throughout the talk Dr. Kreeft mentions C.S. Lewis, but also J.R.R. Tolkein and the relationship between magic and technology.
0:00 Intro
2:25 main talk
39:07 student questions
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18:38 We’ve clearly undone the hierarchy of values. Technology is a means, but it is treated now as an end in itself. A sure path to unhappiness (‘unflourishing’) is to treat an activity that is rightly treated as an activity for the sake of something else as instead an activity for its own sake.
"Post-modernism (Gnostic or Promethean and Egalitarian or animalistic) gives up even on human nature and human reason" (1:06:53); We are faced with a process of a kind of spiritualization of man that recalls the ancient and recurrent Gnosticism. If true dignity consists in the will, then, here is the consequence that interests us, I was saying, if true dignity consists in the will, then one can use the body as one wishes. Use it as a thing, an instrument of every possible pleasure, or reject it until it is annihilated or transformed. The manipulation of the body, which they will decide, in this logic, is seen as the highest degree of dignity as the process of transformation comes closest to the creative action of God. I decide whether I am male or female, I deny corporeality because my dignity lies in the will. A will that is separate, which does not involve, in its own dignity, bodily structure, and which is therefore also the dominating lord of its own bodily stuff. Up to this point! And physical manipulation, in this logic, as I said briefly earlier, is even more significant than physical negation. Because it comes closer, in a more visible way, it mimics the divine creative work. I manipulate myself, I make myself, and I physically transfigure myself, as I want. And the more my attitude is artificial, I will say it shortly, unnatural, the more I affirm myself, I reach my intrinsic dignity. The manipulation of the body, which they will decide, in this logic, I was saying, is seen as the highest degree of dignity, as the process of transformation comes closest to the creative action of God. In this paradoxical perspective, the more artificial the relationship with the body is unnatural, the more one's dignity is manifested and affirmed. This is how it is explained in this vision. And here we come, let's say, to the even deeper point, perhaps the last one. In this vision, the original essential point lies in the recognition or otherwise of reality by reason. How? Either you believe in reality or you want to create reality. This is precisely the last, the most challenging challenge, from an anthropological and cultural point of view, to which we owe, which we must accept with greater awareness and with the necessary tools. And from this point of view, I personally believe that we are not warned enough, that the Christian community, especially the European one, is not warned, or aware enough. But we need to unmask what has been unmasked for a long time, and which is now slowly emerging because we want to bring out because the times seem ripe, and we often find ourselves usually unprepared, up to this point: we believe, or we don't believe in objective reality? Or do we want to create it? They are two totally different schemes that will increasingly face each other, with enormous consequences that are not at all of a purely academic nature, closed in some university classroom or in some specialized book. Dr. Kreeft helps us to unmask the Antichrist's world (the Man who made himself God).
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Notice how the world happiness has evolved. Owen Barfield believe words were like fossils of the mind.
22:16 transhumanism can't truly conquer death, it can extend lifespans until the heat death of the universe but no further. Even if we upload our minds to computers we cannot live forever since it takes energy to run the computers. We can live for eons upon eons that make the entire history of the universe look like less then an eyeblink, but not forever.
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If someone believes in God and our spirits are eternal you find very little necessity for technology. I mean it's nice to own a device that can do amazing things but eventually you see the ill effects of an overly technological society like we are seeing right now.
If you know the truth of God you realize that it's our eternal spirit that's really important...above and beyond anything.
Jesus showed us the perfect way to live our lives and nobody but a few Saints listened. We are lost in our possessions with an unquenchable thirst for more.And like Mr Creef observed do we own our possessions or do our possessions own us? And there's also possession by demonic spirits but that further opens the portals of our weak mindset to the black hole of our souls.
hey kreeft, why don't you use the bible instead of church fathers and human works?
Let me guess: you’re new to Peter Kreeft?
You know The Bible is human works? Written by men, inspired by God. Unless you believe The Bible fell from the sky.