Asking the Right Questions

by | C.S. Lewis, Culture, Featured, Worldview

C.S. Lewis says that nature tends to answer the questions we ask her. He argues that the change from the medieval to the modern worldview did not come from new information but from changes in mindset that led to us asking different questions of the world. This article explores that change and raises the question of whether the new questions we began asking are the most important.

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