CS Lewis on Aligning with Reality, with Natural Law
There is something which unites magic and applied science (technology) while separating them from the “wisdom” of earlier ages. For the wise men of old, ... » Go
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CS Lewis on the Incompatibility of Reason, Science, and Materialism
All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning. If the feeling of certainty which we express by words like must be and therefore ... » Go
CS Lewis on Hoping the Worst of One’s Enemy
Suppose one reads a story of filthy atrocities in the paper. Then suppose that something turns up suggesting that the story might not be quite ... » Go
The Cardinal Difficulty of Naturalism
If Naturalism is true, every finite thing or event must be (in principle) explicable in terms of the Total System. I say ‘explicable in principle‘ because ... » Go
C.S. Lewis on Naturalism and Inference on Trial
The Naturalist might say, ‘Well, perhaps we cannot exactly see — not yet — how natural selection would turn sub-rational mental behaviour into inferences that ... » Go
Lewis’ Moral Argument for God
In this oft discussed passage from Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis spurns the supposed implications of a century’s worth of cultural anthropology, arguing that, in spite ... » Go
Men Without Chests
In this essay, Lewis takes as his subject the thesis presented by two unnamed schoolmasters in what he calls “The Green Book”: that our value ... » Go
C.S. Lewis on Biology, Theism, and Reason
Once, then, our thoughts were not rational. That is, all our thoughts once were, as many of our thoughts still are, merely subjective events, not ... » Go
The Way
Lewis continues his train of thought from “Men Without Chests”, criticizing the project of subjectivizing value. Lewis thinks the stakes are as grave as they ... » Go
C.S. Lewis on Sentimentality
The debunkers stigmatise as slush and sentimentality a very great deal of what their fathers said in praise of love. They are always pulling up ... » Go
C.S. Lewis on Clarifying Without Judging
But throughout this inquiry we must be careful never to adopt prematurely a moral or evaluating attitude. The human mind is generally far more eager ... » Go
C.S. Lewis on Appreciation
Pleasures of Appreciation are very different. They make us feel that something has not merely gratified our senses in fact but claimed our appreciation by ... » Go
C.S. Lewis on Evading God
But to evade the Son of Man, to look the other way, to pretend you haven’t noticed, to become suddenly absorbed in something on the ... » Go
C.S. Lewis on Being Naked Before God
In the twinkling of an eye, in a time too small to be measured, and in any place, all that seems to divide us from ... » Go
C.S. Lewis on Scrutinizing Christianity
Others may protest that intellecutal discussion can neither build Christianity nor destroy it. They may feel that religion is too sacred to be thus bandied to and ... » Go
C.S. Lewis on Ethics and Christianity
Christianity claims to give an account of facts — to tell you what the real universe is like. Its account of the universe may be ... » Go
C.S. Lewis on a Universe With No Exit
There was one way in which the world, as … rationalism taught me to see it, gratified my wishes. It might be grim and deadly ... » Go
C.S. Lewis on Pagan Parallels
And I still think that the agnostic argument from similarities between Christianity and paganism works only if you know the answer. If you start by knowing on ... » Go
C.S. Lewis on Prayer
Praying for particular things,’ said I, ‘always seems to me like advising God how too run the world. Wouldn’t it be wiser to assume that He knows ... » Go
C.S. Lewis on a Strong Sense of “Unbelievable”
If one kept (as rock-bottom reality) the universe of the senses, aided by instruments and co-ordinated so as to form “science,” then one would have ... » Go
Miracles
This book by CS Lewis was probably his most philosophical work. As such, it is not a light read at all and would probably prove ... » Go
C.S. Lewis on Truth and Christianity
The great difficulty is to get modern audiences to realize that you are preaching Christianity soley and simply because you happen to think it true; they always ... » Go
The Funeral of a Great Myth (of Popular Evolution)
There are some mistakes which humanity has made and repeated so often that there is now really no excuse for making them again. One of these ... » Go
CS Lewis on Progress and an Absolute Good
Does a permanent moral standard preclude progress? On the contrary, except on the supposition of a changeless standard, progress is impossible. If good is a ... » Go
The Poison of Subjectivism
One cause of misery and vice is always present with us in the greed and pride of men, but at certain periods in history this ... » Go