It is precisely when our humanity is not a ‘mystery’ that we can make informed, appropriate judgments about ourselves and how to act with regard to ourselves. Far from being ‘a basilisk which kills what it sees and only sees by killing,’ as C. S. Lewis described science, scientific understanding of the human mind and the universe at large enables human beings to better discern their own values and the context in which those values have meaning, and applied science and technology provide humans the opportunity to realize those values. It’s self-knowledge, made possible by sciences of the mind, that may someday enable human beings to analyze their desire for power over one another.
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To make a leap – not into a Void, but rather into ourselves and into the fullness of the world unveiled by our investigations.
-Gregory E. Jordan, The Invention of Man: A Response to C. S. Lewis: The Abolition of Man, Journal of Evolution and Technology – vol. 19 issue 1 – September 2008 – pgs 35-41
INQUIRIM VITAE 