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What is humanityities End?

You know, there are a lot of people these days that are looking for humanity to end.

There is this article that just came out in the Atlantic by this Adam Kirsch,

detailing these kinds of movements.

There's this kind of anti-humanism that wants humankind to be over and done with, because

basically they hold that self-destruction is now inevitable a kind of ecological self-destruction.

And they even look forward to the extinction of the species.

There are others who want to really double down on the artificiality that we've got going as humanity.

This is a transhumanism movement, of course, that wants to sort of use all of our scientific and technological progress and prowess and make us into a new kind of being, even going beyond Homo sapiens,

even some even talking about uploading consciousness into a kind of new kind of internet or something like that.

These are both visions of an end of humanity that really does away with the human species.

And yet it's been revealed to us that God has made us good and wants to bring us to perfection and bring us to him

as who we are, not as something else, as human beings, and as, of course, sons and daughters

of God. So it is that St. Thomas, of course, following this revelation, but also reasoning

through the revelation, sees humanity's end as one that includes its entire perfection,

including, of course, the resurrection of the body. That is, Thomas doesn't see us as needing to escape our body,

but that somehow we need to have our bodies perfected. They are good and ought to be brought to their best end.

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