Becoming Human

By Samuel Loncar, Ph.D.Society & Culture Philosophy

Becoming Human episodes

February 17, 2022 The Modern Crisis of Choice | Explorations: Ep. 2
Freedom without choice is an illusion, but choice is not freedom. This episode features the first part of my series on how modernity traps us by increasing meaningless choices while destroying our freedom. Learning why we have so many choices is the first step towards accepting out situation, then transforming it with philosophy as a way of life.
26 min
February 08, 2022 The Revolution of the Electric Word | Explorations: Ep. 1
Since the modern age is over and modernity is a myth, what comes next? This episode offers a history of the current revolution in our greatest knowledge technology: the decline of literary and the rise of a new Aural Age. To respond to the end of reading, we need a new vision of philosophy and education. Welcome to the Becoming Human Project.
42 min
June 09, 2020 Ep. 10: Revolution after the Death of God
The world we think we live in has come to an end. At the end of the journey of Series 1: Origins, we come to the beginning of something new: the future.
1 hr 1 min
May 30, 2020 Ep. 9: Science as Salvation and the Death of Reason
After the Enlightenment, Science emerges as humanity's last, best hope for salvation. But can Science save us, and if so, at what cost?
57 min
May 20, 2020 Ep. 8: The Triumph of Reason
Protestantism gave birth to profound skepticism across Europe, leading to a search for certainty and a new authority that could rule in the place of Scripture or the Church. The new authority? Reason, and reason alone.
54 min
May 10, 2020 Ep. 7: The Birth of the Modern World: Protestantism and Atheism
At the root of modernity is a revolution in Christianity itself, one that renews and deepens its atheism and begins to destroy the medieval Christian world, preparing the ground for a new world: the modern. Another name for modernity? Protestantism.
54 min
April 30, 2020 Ep. 6: The Atheist Revolution That Changed the World
Two great atheist revolutions have transformed the world. The second, and most recent, was Marxism. But the first was an ancient philosophy that destroyed the gods of the ancient world, and has been a god-killing movement ever since.
55 min
April 20, 2020 Ep. 5: A Murderous Logic: Antisemitism, Christianity, and Ancient Philosophy
As antisemitic attacks increase across the world, it's important to understand why antisemitism is so pervasive. Far from being simply an issue of prejudice and injustice, antisemitism is a major philosophical problem that lies at the roots of Christianity, and thus Western culture.

Series 1, Origins: How Philosophy Remade Science and Religion
54 min
April 10, 2020 Ep. 4: Magicians and Philosophers: From Empedocles to Jesus
Exploring a scarcely known tradition of philosopher-magicians, this episode puts magic and truth at the center of ancient philosophy.
46 min
March 31, 2020 Ep. 3: Jesus the Philosopher? A Jewish Revolution
No single person has shaped history more than an obscure Jewish teacher who was executed by the Roman empire. Today, we know him as a god, a myth, a savior. In fact, he was the greatest philosopher of his time: Jesus of Nazareth.

Becoming Human: Origins Samuel Loncar, Ph.D. (Yale)
43 min