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# The Abolition of Man, Part 2: Conditioners and the Conquest of Nature (Mythic Mind, ep. 112)
- URL: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/the-abolition-of-man-part-2-conditioners-and-the-conquest-of-nature-mythic-mind-ep-112/
- Published: 2025-09-29T13:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T04:37:41.000Z
- Author: Andrew Snyder

Mythic MindEpisode 112

# The Abolition of Man, Part 2: Conditioners and the Conquest of Nature (Mythic Mind, ep. 112)

Dr. Andrew Snyder

29 September 2025

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## In this episode

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.

### People

**Dr. Andrew Snyder**Host and speaker

### Key themes

- The conditioner class
- Nature reduced to raw material

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- [**The Abolition of Man, Part 1: Men Without Chests (Mythic Mind, ep. 111)**Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voOEKAzHrk0&ref=mythicmindfellowship.com)
- [**The Abolition of Man: Charlie Kirk, Iryna Zarutska, and Moral Blindness (Mythic Mind, ep. 110)**Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX0zy5IcV0Q&ref=mythicmindfellowship.com)
- [**That Hideous Strength: Opening the Final Ransom Novel (Mythic Mind, ep. 106)**Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTO6qBf0WNs&ref=mythicmindfellowship.com)
- [**That Hideous Strength, Pt. 1: Mark, Jane, and the N.I.C.E. (Mythic Mind, ep. 107)**Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nouFFhsDKs&ref=mythicmindfellowship.com)

## Books mentioned

- [**The Abolition of Man**C.S. Lewis](https://bookshop.org/a/129785/9780060652944?ref=mythicmindfellowship.com)

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