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112 - The Abolition of Man, Part 2: Conditioners and the Conquest of Nature

Mythic Mind · Sep 29, 2025 · 47:19

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Lewis's third essay names the endgame: when "man's conquest of nature" becomes a few conditioners remaking everyone else, humanity abolishes itself. Power without the Tao is not progress. It is patients of power wearing the mask of freedom.

In this Mythic Mind lecture from the Fiction and Philosophy of C.S. Lewis course, Dr. Andrew Snyder (professor of philosophy and theology) finishes The Abolition of Man: eugenics and scientific education as predestination, existence-before-essence as a false anthropology, and why That Hideous Strength needs this slim book as its spine.

Topics include the conditioner class, nature reduced to raw material, and why a culture that rejects objective value cannot keep "man" as anything but a temporary slogan.

Related:
• The Abolition of Man, Part 1: Men Without Chests (Mythic Mind, ep. 111): https://youtu.be/voOEKAzHrk0
• The Abolition of Man: Charlie Kirk, Iryna Zarutska, and Moral Blindness (Mythic Mind, ep. 110): https://youtu.be/ZX0zy5IcV0Q
• That Hideous Strength: Opening the Final Ransom Novel (Mythic Mind, ep. 106): https://youtu.be/rTO6qBf0WNs
• That Hideous Strength, Pt. 1: Mark, Jane, and the N.I.C.E. (Mythic Mind, ep. 107): https://youtu.be/6nouFFhsDKs

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