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The C.S. Lewis podcast
#142 That Hideous Strength: What is the future of humanity?
Jan 29, 2024
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- Lewis explores different viewpoints on how humanity should reshape itself and the Earth for survival and flourishing.
- Lewis presents the idea that in trying to redirect and control nature, we risk losing what makes us truly human.
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The future of humanity and the need for reinvention
The novel 'That Hideous Strength' reflects on the future of humanity and the possibility of reinventing ourselves biologically and transforming the Earth to ensure our survival. Through the narrative, Lewis explores different viewpoints on how humanity should reshape itself and the Earth for survival and flourishing. He also questions whether scientific experimentation is meant solely to understand the world or to take control of it for our own purposes, drawing from a renaissance tradition.
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