In Laudato Si, Pope Francis attributes global climate change to a destructive “technocratic paradigm” of thought and action. He then calls for a renewed educational program to resist the technocratic paradigm. This paper shows how reading C. S. Lewis’ Abolition of Man and Plato’s Republic alongside Laudato Si can help students better appreciate some of Francis’ central points. Abolition of Man illuminates the technocratic paradigm’s essential features: (1) a reduction of value-laden creation (which demands respect) to value-neutral “nature” (which does not) and (2) the development of techniques to transform nature—including human nature—according to the desires of the dominant class. The allegory of the cave and the tripartite account of th...
This interpretive project begins with the following question: How does The Abolition of Man by C. S....
In Laudato si’, Pope Francis analyses the climate crisis, caused by humankind (‘the cry of the earth...
The paper analyzes the cognitive and intellectual situation concerning above all man. The author cla...
In Laudato Si, Pope Francis attributes global climate change to a destructive “technocratic paradigm...
Throughout Laudato Si’, Pope Francis decries what he calls the “throwaway culture.” At first blush, ...
"Reality" is a term that appears dozens of times in Pope Francis’s Laudato Si’. The term is not dire...
In his encyclical Laudato Si, Pope Francis challenges us to both respect the environment and attend ...
In one’s search for the philosophical foundations of the encyclical Laudato Si’ by Pope Francis one ...
In Laudato Si’ Pope Francis has offered a ‘position paper’ on care for the common good. Chapter Six ...
This chapter begins with a general introduction to Pope Francis's encyclical, Laudato Si’ (2015), fo...
In this thesis I argue that both Pope Francis and Pierre Hadot identify a distorted human perception...
Liberal education has taken many of its cues from Plato’s writings. Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, fo...
This paper examines Laudato si’ and a few of its key themes as they pertain to Christian spiritualit...
In his work, The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis expresses a powerful analysis of the modern philosophi...
In this paper, I aim at interpreting the project of the encyclical as a sort of paradigmatic turn in...
This interpretive project begins with the following question: How does The Abolition of Man by C. S....
In Laudato si’, Pope Francis analyses the climate crisis, caused by humankind (‘the cry of the earth...
The paper analyzes the cognitive and intellectual situation concerning above all man. The author cla...
In Laudato Si, Pope Francis attributes global climate change to a destructive “technocratic paradigm...
Throughout Laudato Si’, Pope Francis decries what he calls the “throwaway culture.” At first blush, ...
"Reality" is a term that appears dozens of times in Pope Francis’s Laudato Si’. The term is not dire...
In his encyclical Laudato Si, Pope Francis challenges us to both respect the environment and attend ...
In one’s search for the philosophical foundations of the encyclical Laudato Si’ by Pope Francis one ...
In Laudato Si’ Pope Francis has offered a ‘position paper’ on care for the common good. Chapter Six ...
This chapter begins with a general introduction to Pope Francis's encyclical, Laudato Si’ (2015), fo...
In this thesis I argue that both Pope Francis and Pierre Hadot identify a distorted human perception...
Liberal education has taken many of its cues from Plato’s writings. Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, fo...
This paper examines Laudato si’ and a few of its key themes as they pertain to Christian spiritualit...
In his work, The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis expresses a powerful analysis of the modern philosophi...
In this paper, I aim at interpreting the project of the encyclical as a sort of paradigmatic turn in...
This interpretive project begins with the following question: How does The Abolition of Man by C. S....
In Laudato si’, Pope Francis analyses the climate crisis, caused by humankind (‘the cry of the earth...
The paper analyzes the cognitive and intellectual situation concerning above all man. The author cla...