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In this lecture, Marc Barnes argues that the question of gender is inescapably a question of the nature of the human person. He critiques the current reigning system of gender for its ironies, internal inconsistencies, and failure to satisfy or “work” on its own terms. Contrary to its origins, public gender discourse today describes gender in statements of being rather than of performance. If gender is the whole truth of a person, it cannot be interrogated as to its attributes or parts. However, both believers in gender theory and those who oppose them on biological grounds are dependent upon a prior known or assumed reality of what “woman” or “man,” “male” or “female” is. “By scratching at gender,” Barnes says, “we’ve opened up all of metaphysics.”
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- NICHOLAS CARR, author of Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart, on how social media affects our brains and our relationships
- THOMAS WARD, author of After Stoicism: Last Words of the Last Roman Philosopher, on Boethius — the Christian — and Stoicism
- JOSEPH STUART, author of Christopher Dawson: A Cultural Mind in the Age of the Great War, on Dawson’s forgotten legacy
- STEVEN KNEPPER & ROBERT WYLLIE, authors of Byung-Chul Han: A Critical Introduction, on key themes in the contemporary philosopher’s work
- EPHRAIM RADNER, author of Mortal Goods: Reimagining Christian Political Duty, on the flawed modern narrative of ‘‘betterment”
- ANDREW WILLARD JONES, author of The Church Against the State: On Subsidiarity and Sovereignty, on reality, friendship, and analogical participation