Essence of modernity and its consequence the essence

Essence of modernity and its consequence
The essence of modernity is that “nothing is sacred.” Its consequence include the human person. When
modernity happens, there will be no distinctions between individuals or humans between animals and
vegetables and all other non-human creatures.

WHAT DO WE NEED FOR SCIENCE TO BE GOOD
• Perseverance
• Honesty
• Responsibility
• Discipline
1. A good scientist must never give up.
2. Being honest is important in acquiring knowledge.
3. True scientist hold themselves accountable for the consequences of their study.
4. Scientist follow the scientific method, which is made up of a series of steps that was established
to ensure the quality of a scientific study.
• Science as Religion
The first way science and magic are similar according to Lewis is their ability to function as an
alternative religion. A magical view of reality can inspire wonder, mystery, and awe. While
magical stories tantalize religious and irreligious people alike, for those without conventional
religious attachments, they can provide a substitute spiritual reality.
• Modern science can offer a similarly powerful alternative to traditional religion. In Lewis’s
lifetime, the promoter par excellence of this sort of science as religion was popular writer H. G.
Wells. Wells and others fashioned Darwin’s theory of evolution into a cosmic creation story Lewis
variously called “The Scientific Outlook”.
Science as Credulity
The second way science and magic are similar according to Lewis is their encouragement of a
stunning lack of skepticism. This may seem counterintuitive, since science in the popular imagination
is supposed to be based on logic and evidence, while magic is supposed to be based on a
superstitious acceptance of claims made in the name of the supernatural.
In the 1940s, Lewis offered an explicit critique of Freudianism in a lecture to the Socratic Club at
Oxford. Noting that people used to believe that “if a thing seemed obviously true to a hundred men,
then it was probably true in fact, Lewis observed that “Nowadays the Freudian will tell you to go and
analyze the hundred. you will find that they all think Elizabeth a great queen because they all have a
mother-complex.

If scientists themselves could demonstrate such stunning bouts of credulity about scientific claims,
members of the general public were even more susceptible to the disease according to Lewis. In an
age of science and technology, Lewis knew that ordinary citizens must increasingly look to scientific
experts for answers, and that would likely lead people to defer more and more to the scientists,
letting the scientists do their thinking for them and neglecting their own responsibilities for critical
thought in the process.
C. S. Lewis was not persuaded. the scientific utopians failed to take into account the moral vacuum at
the heart of contemporary science. Lewis stressed that he was not anti-science, but he still worried
that modern science was ill-founded from the start.