2017 09 01 Episode 2 PKG "A Piece of Work"

When have we stopped supplying nature and begun to supplant it? If there is nothing wrong - in principle - with improving on nature, then where do we draw the line when it comes to our efforts to improve (on) it? When we design technology capable of anticipating our needs - and our desires - what do we risk losing? Most importantly: what resources can we find within the Catholic tradition of thinking, to help us find our way across the troubled landscape of technological (r)evolution, with all its challenges and opportunities? These were the focuses of my conversation with Fr. Philip Larrey, a priest of the Rome diocese and Professor of Philosophy at the Pontifical Lateran University, where he teaches logic and epistemology.