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https://www.movieguide.org/reviews/the-magicians-twin.html
The Magician’s Twin Guide
Questions:
1. What is scientism and scientocracy?
2. How is science comparable to magic?
3. Why is science more dangerous than magic?
4. What is the presented essence of modernity and its
consequence?
5. What do we need for the sciences to be good?
Scientism
The belief or ideology that science is the best or only test for truth of any kind.
Science as power where science becomes the dictator of the culture.
religion
science magic credulity
power
Scientocracy
The practice of basing public policies on science.
A government of the people, but informed by scientists.
C.S. Lewis and the Case Against Scientism,
explores Lewis’s prophetic concerns about the
misuse of science to “abolish” man and to
undermine personal freedoms and human
dignity.
http://www.cslewisweb.com/category/the-magicians-twin-film/
The Magician’s Twin Guide
Questions:
1. What is scientism?
2. How is science comparable to magic?
3. Why is science more dangerous than magic?
4. What is the presented essence of modernity and its
consequence?
5. What do we need for the sciences to be good?
-written on September 2015
Main strategy for eradicating
poverty
– Growth
– More growth – according to Orthodox
economists
Higher literacy
rates?
Higher
happiness
indicators?
Buen vivir
How much is enough?
- Robert and Edward Skidelsky