Dec 7, 2022
While we may think of phones and
laptops when we hear the word “technology,” it can also be thought
of as a way of viewing the world: the belief that knowledge of
reality means the ability to predict, experiment, and transform it,
and that nature is completely open to that
process. But while this approach to the world and how we
understand it makes us very good at solving problems, it also
blinds us to an entire realm of thought. Science and technology can
neither ask nor answer the “big” questions: what is a human being?
What is a good life?
Michael Hanby—professor, writer, and
postliberal thinker—joins Grant to dig into some of those
questions. Does technology as ontology serve human persons as a
tool, or act upon them as objects? Can a Christian political order
coexist with this worldview? In a time when technology has made it
possible to change our very bodies in ways that would have been
unimaginable to previous generations, are we less human than
before?