GE-7 (STS) Module 2

Assignment 2.1

Technology as a Way of Revealing

Instruction: Watch and take notes on the documentary film, The Magician’s Twin:
C.S. Lewis and the Case Against Scientism, available on YouTube
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPeyJvXU68k), then answer the following questions:

1. Why was C.S. Lewis very much a skeptic and critique of scientism? Was he against science?

2. How did C.S. Lewis explain the following:

A. Science as religion
B. Science as credulity
C. Science as power

3. Why did C.S. Lewis thinks that modern science is far more dangerous than magic?

4. Why did C.S. Lewis became increasingly concerned about the rise of scientocracy? Fow
does scientocracy relate to scientism?

5. Based on what you learned in the documentary film, how does scientism pose a threat to the
human person flourishing in science and technology? Why should science be guided by an
ethical basis that is not dictated by science itself?

Reference
Quinto, EJM & Nieva, AD. 2019. Science, Technology and Society –Outcome-Based Module. C
& E Publishing , Inc. pp 1-pp217.