Hello Antoine,
You’re welcome. Could you please say if you are at all familiar with McLuhan up to now? This would help frame the encounter. He’s not for everyone’s taste, apparently, although he had a great sense of humour.
One of McLuhan’s most provocative statements, following the language as above: “Christ, after all, is the ultimate extension of man.” (1969) This “probe” does not have just a single interpretation.
“Could you please expand on “post- or trans-evolutionary way”?”
Would you be open if I contacted you about it privately by email first to discuss, rather than expanding on it here now at post 1161 in this good long thread, so as not to distract from it?
It seems we mean something quite similar as this from the OP: "In summary, life evolved gradually by incredibly tiny leaps and amazing disappearance of intermediate varieties into the sharply forms of life we know today. Then a ‘leap’ happened at the spiritual level: God transformed the animals of Homo sapiens into persons. Before this ‘leap’ it does not make sense to speak about “the very first human being”.
“Do you mean by these concepts that “the human species” as it is presently will be superseded in the future?”
No, I reject trans-humanism and post-humanism. While he’s one of the major writers on this topic, Fr. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s work in this area seems worrisome to many in the RCC. I’m curious how you relate to him in this conversation (beyond the “I may deviate from Teilhard” comment above), or if you prefer to leave him out?
Thanks & good wishes,
Nikolai