Tag: George Bernard Shaw
Michael Ruse on Purpose: A Conflicted Response
Whatever else might be said of Ruse and his work, like all his books this one is worth having on the shelf.
Shaw, Scientism, and Darwinism
George Bernard Shaw’s positive criterion by which to measure and ridicule folly and vice was fatally ambiguous, eclectic, and inconstant.
Darwinism as the Root Problem of Modernity
Shaw and Chesterton believed that the acceptance of Darwinism made it impossible to resist social Darwinism, plutocracy, imperialism, racialism, and militarism.
Shaw, Chesterton, and the Critique of Darwinism
Chesterton was a friend of Shaw but also an ideological opponent, who often debated with him on public stages.
C. S. Lewis and Critical Reactions to Transhumanism
I will briefly review two prominent voices in the opposition camp who reflect concerns at the heart of C. S. Lewis’s own case.