Jonathan and Ryan continue their discussion of Alan Jacobs’s book The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis. This book stars C.S. Lewis, Simone Weil, W.H. Auden, Jacques Maritain, and T.S. Eliot, and on this episode of New Humanists, your hosts continue to tease out the implications for our current transhumanist moment, hitting on technology, education, the family, and power. This is the second part of a two-part look into the Jacobs book.
Alan Jacobs’s The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780190864651
Cicero’s Pro Archia Poeta: https://amzn.to/3phQwS1
Free in Latin: https://la.wikisource.org/wiki/Pro_A._Licinio_Archia_poeta
Free in English: https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0019%3Atext%3DArch.
The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity in Latin: https://archive.org/details/MN5140ucmf_2/page/n71/mode/2up
The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity in English: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0324.htm
Simone Weil’s The Iliad or the Poem of Force: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780820463612
Free in French: https://teuwissen.ch/imlift/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Weil-L_Iliade_ou_le_poeme_de_la_force.pdf
Free in English: http://www.holoka.com/pdf-files/weil.pdf
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