Becoming Human
A Show for a Species in Crisis​
Becoming Human: A Show for a Species in Crisis launched the Becoming Human Project—a multimedia project to bringing philosophy as a way of life to everyone and building a community of creators seeking a more meaningful life.
The project was born from a new story of the human (the story I tell in Becoming Human: Origins) that I am seeking to live and share with others, and it brings my original research, courses, conversations with scientists, artists, and writers to the widest possible audience.
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The show features long-form, solo series that bring scholarly depth and academic insights to today’s most pressing questions around science, religion, and philosophy. ​
Between series, you’ll find Explorations: journeying into time, culture, art, and history, encountering the mystery of the human in free-standing episodes and conversations.​​​​
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Becoming Human is available on Spotify, Apple, and Stitcher, and other podcast apps. You can also watch most episodes on YouTube.
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​Listen to Becoming Human: Origins, How Philosophy Remade Science and Religion.
Becoming Human: Origins
How Philosophy Remade Science and Religion
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​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.
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The 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.
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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?​​​
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