Philosophers, such as George Grant, have written accessibly about the nature of technology as being a way of living, almost a spiritual disposition, in which humanity is confined only by its collective imagination. This line of enquiry was arguably initiated and more powerfully theorized by a less accessible philosopher, Martin Heidegger, in his famous essay,Continue reading “On being as indebtedness”
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Communication & Communion
As I have indicated in prior blog posts, I enjoy finding etymological connections between words and thinking through how those connections might inform our living. Thinking about terms that have the same origin might inform us about how others have thought and even the way we implicitly think as we use our languages (usually unreflectively).Continue reading “Communication & Communion”
Technological Thinking and the Human Person as a What
For Fr. Dcn. A. P. W. B. I have a friend who loves to tell a story about a phrase he heard from His Eminence, Cardinal Collins, at a dinner party: “We must remember that a human being is a ‘who’ and not a ‘what,’ a subject to be valued, not an object to beContinue reading “Technological Thinking and the Human Person as a What”
Hoping for Clarity 