Sequence provisional

What Is a Human Life For

A foundational sequence moving from human worth, through work and ethics, to Christian metaphysics and the Christian roots of modern moral intuitions. Title and order are provisional.

1. The Value of a Human Being Planned

   What grounds human worth beyond intelligence, productivity, independence, or status?

2. The Value of Work in the Age of AI Planned

   What is work for as machines acquire more capabilities? Livelihood, mastery, service, and vocation, and how purpose can survive a loss of economic usefulness.

3. Utilitarianism, Virtue Ethics, and Christian Ethics Planned

   Comparing consequences, character, obligation, and the good life, with an honest account of where Christian ethics overlaps with virtue ethics.

4. The Metaphysical View of Christianity Planned

   What Christianity claims about reality, creation, God, humanity, and Christ, and what follows for how we live.

5. The Christian Waters We Swim In Planned

   The deep Christian roots of modern ideas of goodness, and where EA and rationalist culture continue or depart from them, distinguishing historical influence from philosophical justification and theological truth.