Human Being & Human Acting After Technology
This course is also offered as APPL 522
Course Description
Please Note: This course is only available onsite.
To be human is to be designed to make a meaningful difference in the world as men and women bearing the image of the God. But as we pursue that quest in ways both intended and unintended by ourselves and our Creator, humans have ushered in the technological era, in which more and more activity is undertaken and overtaken by our own sub-creations, from the machines and factories of the Industrial Revolution to artificial intelligences in the era of ChatGPT.
What is meaningful human action in a world where our physical, mental, and emotional capabilities may be not only supplemented by, but superseded and supplanted by, devices and systems that operate at superhuman speed, complexity, and scale? Anchoring our discussion in frameworks from figures like Karl Marx and Martin Heidegger, Ivan Illich and Erazim Kohák, and Willie Jennings, Paul Kingsnorth, and Mary Harrington, we will use the fourfold schema of the Greatest Commandment to examine how our design as "heart-soul-mind-strength complexes designed for love" is challenged by technological developments. We will seek to both articulate the distinctive calling of human beings and identify practices that preserve room for that calling in the post-technological world.
Dates | Jul 8–Jul 12 |
Days & Times |
Mon, Tue, Wed, Thur, Fri 8:30AM–11:30AM |
Format | Onsite Only |
Credit Hours | 1–2 |
Audit Hours | 1 |
Faculty
Notes
Course information sheets will be posted here soon.
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this course.