DMMC Institute of Health Sciences

Assignment No. 6
Documentary Film Analysis
Name:Mary Denise Causarin Date: October 19, 2020
Course/Section: 1sy year psychology
Instructions: Watch and take notes on the documentary film, The Magician’s
Twin: C.S. Lewies and the Case Against Scientism, available on YouTube (https/ /
www.youtube.com/?=FPeyJvXU68k). Then, answer the following questions:
1. Why was C.S. Lewis very much a skeptic and critic of scientism? Was he against
science?

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

2.1 science as a religion

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2.2 science as credulity

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2.3 science as power

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

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

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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?

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