Food theologian Norman Wirzba raises our consciousness: we live with animals! Brian Brosovic raises our thanksgiving. Read more
Food theologian Norman Wirzba raises our consciousness: we live with animals! Brian Brosovic raises our thanksgiving. Read more
Jack London's short story of 1916, "The Red One," looks uncannily like Ancient Astronaut TV programs today. Are space aliens coming to jump start human evolution so that we can evolve from wolves into saints? Read more
Novelist Jack London only hints that civilization needs wolf and lamb ethics. We would aim much too low to adopt evolutionary ethics in either the form of the Lone Wolf or the Wolf Pack. But to aim at a future that contradicts evolution's law of the survival-of-the-fittest would ask for more than what naturalism alone can deliver. Read more
Jack London's ethical naturalism cultivates an evolution-based morality. But, such an ethical naturalist must choose between Lone Wolf Ethics, where nature is blood red in tooth and claw, and Wolf Pack Ethics, exhibiting reciprocal altruism that sharply distinguishes between the in-group and the out-group. Once the choice is made, it ceases to be naturalism. Read more
In this sub-series within the larger Jack London series we are asking: given that we human beings are natural, should we ground our moral striving solely on what is natural? If so, does the lone wolf blood “red in tooth and claw” provide the model for human moral behavior? Do we want a repeat of Social Darwinism, Eugenics, and Nazism? Read more
The Unhappy Consciousness Narrative of the White 'n' Woke Progressive Christian absorbs white self-loathing while pressing for social transformation. Read more
There are two Christian nationalist narratives, not one. The first is the "Decline Narrative" told by White American Christian Nationalists. The second is the "Unhappy Consciousness Narrative" told by White 'n' Woke Progressive Christians. In two posts we look at each. Read more
Our conscious mind may be a delusion, if you listen to your friendly neurocentrist. But, consciousness is a hard-core commonsense intuition. Science should explain it, not explain it away. Read more
The neuro-determinists want to steal our free will and fence it to our brains. Are we going to let the thieves get away with this crime? How can we protect our free will? With a precise definition. Read more
Is a distinctively Lutheran transhumanism likely? No, according to Noreen Herzfeld. Why? Because transhumanist assumptions and goals about dislodging the mind from its bodily substrate fails to appreciate how God appreciates our embodiment. Read more
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