C. S. Lewis, The Abolition Of Man

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It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.



Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey "people." People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest....






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The Abolition of Man? How Politics and Culture Have Been ...
In 1943, British writer C. S. Lewis wrote prophetically about the dangers of scientific materialism in a small, penetrating volume titled The Abolition of Man. There Lewis warned that "if man chooses to treat himself as raw material, ...
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Contra Celsum: Douglas Wilson's Letter From America
C.S. Lewis once famously observed the wishful thinking of unbelievers. In a sort of ghastly simplicity, we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. ... We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful (The Abolition of Man). Notice that Lewis is talking about a collection of people, a culture, a society. We do this, and still expect to find that. We cut down our trees, and we wonder where the apples all ...
The Season of Another Book: mere orthodoxy
I recently found myself doing just that with C.S. Lewis; my caveat was simple: "This isn't to endorse the author, but I think this line of Lewis's is on?" only to find myself caught in an increasingly uncomfortable conversation undergirded ... I liked The Abolition of Man much better, but that is because I was trapped in it. I feel much the same way about Chesterton, except for the fact that Orthodoxy is still a great roller coaster. So much of it amounts to the bombastic ...
The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis » PhilosophyFrontier.com
Below is an excerpt from a 4 part booklet by C. S. Lewis at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arch/lewis/abolition1.htm. ?I have described as a `magician's bargain' that process whereby man surrenders object after object, ...


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