Tag: That Hideous Strength
C. S. Lewis Foresaw Scientism’s Totalitarian Potential
According to Lewis, science steps dangerously outside its bounds when it assumes it has all knowledge, especially moral knowledge.
C. S. Lewis Criticized Scientism, Not Science
Scientism is the idea that science is the ultimate path to knowledge and wisdom — the only sure path — and that the spiritual realm is a mirage.
Science and Scientism: The Prophetic Vision of C. S. Lewis
This essay has argued that Lewis was prophetic as regards the advent of techniques powerful enough to bring about the effects he feared.
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.
C. S. Lewis and Contemporary Transhumanism
The vision of technologically enhanced posthumanity arises out of a synthesis of scientific culture’s most robust mythologies.