Becoming Human
is a Project
Philosophy is a way of life, an invitation to the process of becoming human.
The world is full of confusion about what it means to be human.
The crisis of the human is at the root of every major crisis in our time. Solving problems of social inequality, AI regulation, educational reform, among others, all demand a coherent and unified answer to only one question: What does it mean to become human?
Becoming Human Project offers a clear answer.
The project launched in 2020 with the 10-episode series, Becoming Human Origins, by Yale-trained philosopher and scholar of science and religion, Samuel Loncar, PhD.
The series brings Loncar’s original scholarship and research to the widest possible audience, and it became the foundation for Loncar’s for
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“Samuel Loncar is smart and persuasive and a joy to listen to. His writing is both lively and profound. And his erudition is so contagious that it makes you want to drop everything. . .”
Costica Bradatan
Philosophy Editor, LA Review of Books
Professor of the Humanities in the Honors College at Texas Tech University
and Honorary Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of Queensland
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“Rather than merely summarize Plato’s texts, Loncar moves one step closer to the original teachings and philosophically engages their merit.
The interaction with his audience becomes an enlightening examination of Plato, the contemporary world, individual consciousness, and the body politic. Highly recommend.”
Danielle Saltrese,
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“I am someone without a college degree who enjoys learning how to better understand myself and the world. I just finished Loncar’s Becoming Human: Origins and his Greek Philosophy Course, which were fun and made philosophical topics relevant and easy to understand. Thank you!”
Nerissa R.
Becoming Human Project
Becoming Human: Origins
Becoming Human: Origins tells the story of how an atheistic revolution in philosophy, beginning with Socrates and Jesus, remade religion and science, and set the stage for our post-human age. It argues that the dominant story of reason, science, and religion is a modern myth, and must be replaced if we are to make real progress.
This 10-episode (10 hour) series begins by presenting Socrates as a revolutionary religious martyr and ends with the death of God and Reason, revealing the common connection between Protestant Christianity, the Enlightenment, Marxism, and Science. These movements are perceived as radically contradictory, but the source of their conflict is their common ancestry: they are all part of a single atheistic narrative—one that has never been told.
That story, recounted here, explains why atheists are religious, why antisemitism persists through all these movements, and why we have a current crisis around the question: What does it mean to be human?
Becoming Human: Origins is based on a decade of research at Yale on science and religion. It was the first public form of my book, Philosophy as Science and Religion from Plato to Posthumanism (appearing with Columbia University Press), and it launched the Becoming Human Project: a multimedia project that brings philosophy as a way of life to everyone and seeks to build a community of creators pursuing a more meaningful life.
“I have been studying Heidegger for 30 years, and Dr. Loncar’s 12-lecture course on Heidegger has literally transformed my understanding of Sein und Zeit.
This course is invaluable. Thank you so much.”
Professor Aliman Sears,
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