Much of the attention garnered by transhumanism revolves around its most expansive hopes for the technological enhancement of human life, and no such hope is loftier than immortality.
Metanexus: Views 2001.11.14 1657 words Martinez Hewlett, in his guise as a recovering reductionist, is the autho=rof today’s column. It, too, is a response to the column by Phil Clayton onthe philosophy of Michael Polanyi which appeared this past Friday(2001.11.09) on Metanexus. For more information about the chemist turnedphilosopher, Michael Polanyi, as well as a…
Richard (“Dick”) Rorty died at the age of 75 on June 8, 2007, of pancreatic cancer, the same illness to which Jacques Derrida succumbed in 2004. Rorty’s daughter, who seems to have inherited her father’s ironic wit, said that this must be what comes of “reading too much Heidegger.” The first contact I had with…
©2007 Andrew Ilachinski My imaging philosophy is very simple. I strive to record the subtle, interconnected web of energy that makes up what we call the world. For me, beauty, which permeates everything around us, appears in its most sublime state when form, color, pattern and texture are all in harmony. In the same way…
A friend who once lived in England told me that the word sorry is used differently there, that it is less an apology than an expression of sympathy. Over the years my friend and I have listed alternative meanings of the word sorry and assigned each a country of origin (without much regard to real…
Following up on the CUA conference (see previous post), here’s some wisdom from Jacques Maritain, the “old peasant of the Garonne” who helped us understand the “true new fire” of the post-Vatican II church: We would be making a big mistake, as I said in a previous section, if we believed that men who are…