Name: Beverly Anne Gamlosen.

Bateg
Time and Schedule: 7:30-9:00 AM TTH
Title: Human Flourishing as Reflected in Progress and Development
Reading Exercise Answers:
1. The main objective of the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations
is to eradicate poverty by 2030.
2. The standardized unit that measures resource use and water is global
hectares.
3. The standard response to eradicating poverty is growth.
4. The threshold of the Earth for adequately sustaining life is 1.9 hectares.
5. According to the majority of people in the middle and high income countries,
what puts the planet and society at risk is consumption.
6. Each of us should consume 1.8 hectares annually based on the resources
available in the planet.
7. The two indicators of the quality of life given in the article is life expectancy and
happiness.
8. The crisis in the planet that would force us to slowdown if we do not do so
voluntarily is climate change.
9. According to Hickel, what must be done instead of urging poor countries to
catch up with rich countries is “catch-down”.
10. Different areas around the world would think of “de- development” as
ludicrous since the general idea of it is that we should “stop” progressing, it
goes against our societies oldest frame of mind that we should continue
progressing and develop into a better society. Also it would prove to be a strong
rallying cry in the global south.

Name: Beverly Anne Gamlosen Bateg,

Eloiza Bacoco
Time and Schedule: 7:30- 9:00 am TTH
Title: The Magicians Twin: C.S Lewis and the Case against Scientism
1. What is scientism? - Scientism is a pseudo-scientific belief or ideology that
science is the best or the only test for truth of any kind that leads to an
exaggerated trust and almost blind faith in the ability of science especially
science divorced from God, to answer any question and solve any problem.
2. How is science comparable to magic? – According to C.S Lewis, science is
comparable to magic in three ways: (1) Science as a religion, (2) science as
credulity, and (3) science as power. In this film, Discovery Institute’s Dr. John
West explains that for many people, science or scientism serves as a quasi-
religion. It gives their lives meaning. Evolution in particular provides an
 overarching, cosmic vision that many find satisfying: a view of something larger
that their experience: the birth and ultimate fate of the universe, with mankind
struggling against natural odds in its rise to dominance. These two are able to
function as an alternative religion in their encouragement of a lack of
skepticism and in their quest for power.
3. Why is science more dangerous than magic? – Science is far more
dangerous than magic because magic fails. If it does not work, then people
could not use it to control the world while science has the potential that you
really can’t control the people. If you find the right charge, the right treatments,
you can manipulate them. In science, you don’t have any other way of
protecting what you are doing and so it becomes dangerous.
4. Why is the presented essence of modernity and its consequences? - the
essence of modernity is that “nothing is sacred”. Its consequences include
human person. When the modernity happens, there will be no distinctions
between individuals or humans between animals and vegetables and all other
non-human creatures
5. What do we need for the sciences to be good? – C.S Lewis agrees that
science is good but we must know how to control it. Firstly, we need to know
and understand that limits of science. We must know what we should and we
should not do. Secondly, Lewis suggests that scientists may learn to rescue
science from scientism creating a regenerate science that respected human
rights and dignity a science that is no longer be the magicians twin.