Tag: totalitarianism
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.
How Darwin Shaped the Young Joseph Stalin
Jonathan Wells notes that a figure in the totalitarian tradition was influenced by evolution from a very early age.
Totalitarianism Is Darwinism Applied to Politics
Atomization is the radical isolation of each individual from every other individual. Atomization breaks the bonds that hold society in its traditional shape.
“Live Not by Lies”: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Intelligent Design
The censors depend on active personal destruction not to silence us, but to get us (out of fear) to lie and thus silence ourselves.
Darwinism, Totalitarianism, and the Lockdown
Hannah Arendt was the leading philosopher of totalitarianism in the 20th century. She explicitly links totalitarian ideology to Darwinism.