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Chapter 10 C. S. Lewis and the Advent of the Posthuman
“An inevitable force with motives of its own, evolution is central to the techno-futurists’ vision of the posthuman future.”
“Lewis contends that science must be recalled to a position of submission to deeper and older human truths.”
— Jul 02, 2021 07:43AM
“An inevitable force with motives of its own, evolution is central to the techno-futurists’ vision of the posthuman future.”
“Lewis contends that science must be recalled to a position of submission to deeper and older human truths.”
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Chapter 13 C. S. Lewis & the Moral Imagination
“Lewis argued that modern education often did the very opposite of what it was supposed to - it destroyed wonder. What was needed was a revival of wonder.”
“If we cannot have reasonable emotions, we will have unreasonable ones. If we do not tutor our sentiments, they don’t go away. They become toxic.”
— Jul 12, 2021 06:53AM
“Lewis argued that modern education often did the very opposite of what it was supposed to - it destroyed wonder. What was needed was a revival of wonder.”
“If we cannot have reasonable emotions, we will have unreasonable ones. If we do not tutor our sentiments, they don’t go away. They become toxic.”
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Chapter 12 C. S. Lewis, Scientism, and the Battle of the Books
“But the ‘radical empiricism’ that developed throughout the 19th century increasingly eviscerated its own human & rational basis, fulfilling the Renaissance French humanist Rabelais’s fear that ‘science without conscience is the death of the soul,’ the elimination of the awareness & reality of the human subject...”
— Jul 10, 2021 08:28AM
“But the ‘radical empiricism’ that developed throughout the 19th century increasingly eviscerated its own human & rational basis, fulfilling the Renaissance French humanist Rabelais’s fear that ‘science without conscience is the death of the soul,’ the elimination of the awareness & reality of the human subject...”
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Chapter 11 The Education of Mark Studdock
How a Sociologist Learns the Lessons of the Abolition of Man
“...the way in which the members of a society are educated will determine how the society will turn out.”
“If modern society ever reaches the stage of a world ruled by scientific Conditioners, humanity will be as enslaved by irrational caprice as it would be if it were ruled by literal demons.”
— Jul 05, 2021 08:22PM
How a Sociologist Learns the Lessons of the Abolition of Man
“...the way in which the members of a society are educated will determine how the society will turn out.”
“If modern society ever reaches the stage of a world ruled by scientific Conditioners, humanity will be as enslaved by irrational caprice as it would be if it were ruled by literal demons.”
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SOCIETY
“The new oligarchy...must increasingly rely on the advice of scientists, till in the and the politicians proper become merely the scientists’ puppets.” —C. S. Lewis, “Willing Slaves of the Welfare State”
— Jun 30, 2021 09:52PM
“The new oligarchy...must increasingly rely on the advice of scientists, till in the and the politicians proper become merely the scientists’ puppets.” —C. S. Lewis, “Willing Slaves of the Welfare State”
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Chapter 9 C. S. Lewis’ Dangerous Idea Revisited
Argument from Reason, materialism, reality of rational inference, history of the argument, elements of reason, popular objections: argument from computers & God of the gaps
— Jun 30, 2021 09:50PM
Argument from Reason, materialism, reality of rational inference, history of the argument, elements of reason, popular objections: argument from computers & God of the gaps
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REASON
“Unless human reasoning us valid, no science can be true.”—C. S. Lewis, Miracles
— Mar 20, 2021 09:51AM
“Unless human reasoning us valid, no science can be true.”—C. S. Lewis, Miracles
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Chapter 7
C. S. Lewis and Intelligent Design
“Lewis also had a keen appreciation for the radical changeability of science. Thus scientific beliefs cannot be regarded as sacrosanct, and those who challenge them should not be regarded as enemies of science...what is required in science is a robust exchange of ideas, not efforts to suppress legitimate debate.”
— Mar 20, 2021 09:49AM
C. S. Lewis and Intelligent Design
“Lewis also had a keen appreciation for the radical changeability of science. Thus scientific beliefs cannot be regarded as sacrosanct, and those who challenge them should not be regarded as enemies of science...what is required in science is a robust exchange of ideas, not efforts to suppress legitimate debate.”
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“Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature,” wrote Lewis, “and they expected Law in Nature because they expected a Legislator.”
— Mar 20, 2021 09:44AM
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Chapter 6 Darwin in the Dock
“As Lewis pointed out so perceptively, treating reigning paradigms in science as all-encompassing dogmas will blind us to how much about nature we may be missing. Such dogmatism also breeds a kind of scientific authoritarianism that is incompatible with a free society, which Lewis eloquently rebuked in books such as The Abolition of Man and That Hideous Strength.”
— Feb 18, 2021 07:24AM
“As Lewis pointed out so perceptively, treating reigning paradigms in science as all-encompassing dogmas will blind us to how much about nature we may be missing. Such dogmatism also breeds a kind of scientific authoritarianism that is incompatible with a free society, which Lewis eloquently rebuked in books such as The Abolition of Man and That Hideous Strength.”
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Chapter 5
A PECULIAR CLARITY
“Science works best when it is used to explain things, without aiming to explain them away. In other words, science cannot e set up on its own as the supreme arbiter of truth and value.”
“To be confident that our reasoning can actually bring us in touch with truth...requires that there be more than matter, acting according to its properties, in our thought processes.”
— Feb 10, 2021 09:47PM
A PECULIAR CLARITY
“Science works best when it is used to explain things, without aiming to explain them away. In other words, science cannot e set up on its own as the supreme arbiter of truth and value.”
“To be confident that our reasoning can actually bring us in touch with truth...requires that there be more than matter, acting according to its properties, in our thought processes.”
