These suspicions are evident in several of his essays and letters, and in his three science fiction novels. The Rise of Scientismīecause he feared the rising influence of scientism, Lewis maintained a deep suspicion of some scientists, some scientific projects, and all centralized scientific planning. Scientism’s ultimate goal is placing all of nature under human control. By contrast, the new science, or scientism, developed out of an impulse to see through nature by deconstructing its processes until everything in it - including the human being - was explained as a matter of mere physical causality. Science, for Lewis, was a means of seeing and thus of appreciating nature, and the inviolability of nature was the principal value guiding its investigations. In short, Lewis respected scientific work that pursued knowledge of the natural world. (National Institute for Coordinated Experiments) label him a reactionary, and for which he is murdered.

Lewis also fashioned the tough-minded physical chemist Bill Hingest in That Hideous Strength to represent a “real scientist.” Bill “The Blizzard” has no patience with science as modern magic or social programming, a position for which his colleagues at the N.I.C.E. He corresponded for a time with Sir Arthur C. Lewis was curious about and sought to grasp contemporary scientific theories, and was willing to embrace what he took to be legitimate scientific insights.

But, was Lewis an enemy of science? The apparent answer to this question is no, for he followed scientific developments and spoke respectfully even of scientists with whom he disagreed, such as J. It would be easy to read the third lecture of The Abolition of Man as an attack on science, a view that appears to receive support from other works by Lewis.

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Lewis on Science, Scientism, and Society, edited by John G. This post is adapted from Chapter 10 of The Magician’s Twin: C. His books include The Making of the New Spirituality: The Eclipse of the Western Religious Tradition. Herrick is the Guy Vander Jagt Professor of Communication at Hope College in Holland, MI. To mark the former book’s three-quarter century anniversary, Evolution News presents a series of essays, reflections, and videos about its themes and legacy. Lewis’s That Hideous Strength is a dystopian novel that eerily reflects the realities of 2020, putting into a memorable fictional form ideas expressed in Lewis’s non-fiction work, The Abolition of Man. Editor’s note : Published on August 16, 1945, C.

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