The history of Western modernity has been the history of humanism, and more particularly, the history of a shifting of the universal centre of potential progress and value, from God to humanity, theocentrism to anthropocentrism. Without initially diminishing an entrenched commitment to theism, the Renaissance and the Enlightenment witnessed the gradual displacement of the external… Continue reading A Draft Introduction for a Possible Article on the Philosophy of Religion
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Optimism in the Face of the Irreconcilably Alien (COVID 19 Edition)
The two feature films directed by Alex Garland, Ex Machina (2014) and Annihilation (2018), have something in common that intrigues me, beyond the obvious similarity of their sci-fi genre. Mild ***SPOILERS*** follow. Mild ***SPOILERS*** follow. Mild ***SPOILERS*** follow. Mild ***SPOILERS*** follow. Mild ***SPOILERS*** follow. Mild ***SPOILERS*** follow. Mild ***SPOILERS*** follow. Mild ***SPOILERS*** follow. Mild ***SPOILERS***… Continue reading Optimism in the Face of the Irreconcilably Alien (COVID 19 Edition)
Theocentric Posthumanism 