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From Chicken-Stuffing to Immortality Machines: The Faustian Bargain of Modernity

The scene feels like a grim parody of scientific progress: London, late March 1626. An aging Sir Francis Bacon, once Lord Chancellor of England, now fallen from grace but still crackling with intellectual ambition, jostles in a carriage through the snow near Highgate. Spying a chicken pecking scraps in a cottage yard, a sudden inspiration […]

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The Failure of the Modern Project: Part 2 of 4

“The modern world is not the triumph of reason, but the revenge of Prometheus.” In The Kingdom of Man, Rémi Brague presents a formidable critique of modernity not as the triumph of human reason but as the culmination of a metaphysical rebellion—one that sought to replace divine order with human sovereignty. Having already examined the medieval […]

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