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Bidrar til synet på tenkeren Lewis' avsløring av logiske
defekter ved en kultopphøyd 'scientisme', en holdning
som står bak de moderne fenomener: Teknokrati og herav
transhumanisme,

å videreutvikle eller ombygge Mennesket til 'Sapiens 2'
gjennom en høyteknologi vi lenge bare hadde hørt om
via 'Science Fiction', i verste fall.

Lewis 'dramatiske' roman 'That Hideous Strength' omfatter dette
moderne dilemma, blant andre tankevekkende 'evige' tema.

Omtalt:

« Lewis thought that, in Alfred North Whitehead’s words,

scientists who were
“animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless
constitute an interesting subject for study.”

He satirically depicted such scientists in 'That Hideous
Strength', especially in the figure of Frost.

Of all radical empiricists, from La Mettrie and Hume to
A. J. Ayer, who would undermine the authority of reason
and its procedures,
Lewis tirelessly pointed out this contradiction.

(...) in some important sense language and thought
themselves are non-natural, supernatural, transcendent,
and metaphysical.
“In order to think,” he wrote in 1942, “we must claim for
our reasoning a validity which is not credible if our own
thought is merely a function of our brain,
and our brains a by-product of non-rational physical
processes.”

Lewis’ love of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance was due
largely to his loyalty to an epistemology
that he thought had been caricatured and misunderstood by
Bacon, Descartes, and the French Encyclopedists of the
eighteenth century.
As a careful student of the history of philosophy and ideas,
he knew that the great flowering of scientific thought
in the seventeenth century had not only Greek roots, but
medieval ones. »

( etter “Lewis on Mere science” her >

Fra forlagsomtale:

C. S. Lewis is best known for his Narnia tales and
Christian apologetics, works that have sold more than
100 million copies.
But Lewis was also a trained philosopher and a professor
at Cambridge and Oxford.
He fiercely and extensively critiqued the fashionable dogma
known as scientism —
the idea that science is the only path to knowledge,
and matter the fundamental reality.

Michael Aeschliman’s The Restoration of Man ably surveys
Lewis’s eloquent case against this dogma,
and situates him among the many other notable thinkers
who have entered the fray over this crucial issue.

Aeschliman shows why Lewis’s case for the human person as
more than matter — as a creature with inherent rationality
and worth —
is a precious resource for restoring and preserving our
culture’s sanity, wisdom, and moral order.

This newly revised and expanded edition of Aeschliman’s
celebrated study includes forewords by three distinguished
writers:
James Le Fanu, George Gilder, and Malcolm Muggeridge.

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