C. S. Lewis, First Things First
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Pride is a spiritual Cancer: It eats up the very possibilty of love, or contentment, or even common sense.Author News
The First Things First Principle ? Justin Taylor
The First Things First Principle. C.S. Lewis: The woman who makes a dog the centre of her life loses, in the end, not only her human usefulness and dignity but even the proper pleasure of dog-keeping. The man who makes alcohol his chief ...
The First Things First Principle. C.S. Lewis: The woman who makes a dog the centre of her life loses, in the end, not only her human usefulness and dignity but even the proper pleasure of dog-keeping. The man who makes alcohol his chief ...
dangerous idea: C. S. Lewis's Classic Reply to the Wish ...
But they will say that they have been deceived first by their own desires and produced the arguments afterwards as a rationalization: that these arguments have never been intrinsically even plausible, but have seemed so because they were secretly weighted by our wishes. Now I do not doubt that this sort of thing happens in thinking about religion as in thinking about other things; but as a general explanation of religious assent it seems to me quite useless. ...
But they will say that they have been deceived first by their own desires and produced the arguments afterwards as a rationalization: that these arguments have never been intrinsically even plausible, but have seemed so because they were secretly weighted by our wishes. Now I do not doubt that this sort of thing happens in thinking about religion as in thinking about other things; but as a general explanation of religious assent it seems to me quite useless. ...
An Error Worse Than Error | First Things
This post reminds me of a distinction that C.S. Lewis made (and employed to great use in Ward's "Planet Narnia") of "seeing the beam" and "seeing along the beam." It would seem, according to Reno/Newman, that to be overly-critical ...
This post reminds me of a distinction that C.S. Lewis made (and employed to great use in Ward's "Planet Narnia") of "seeing the beam" and "seeing along the beam." It would seem, according to Reno/Newman, that to be overly-critical ...
~With Love And Kisses~: I think it would be wise to take a step back.
First things first... this idea camp directly from Chris as My Ink Spot... I hope he doesn't mind me snatching this from his, but it really jolted me and I'd love for it to jolt you as well. Its the same idea, I just changed it up a little bit. ... Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. -C.S. Lewis ...
First things first... this idea camp directly from Chris as My Ink Spot... I hope he doesn't mind me snatching this from his, but it really jolted me and I'd love for it to jolt you as well. Its the same idea, I just changed it up a little bit. ... Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. -C.S. Lewis ...
Philosophy of Science Portal: C. S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud
Often enough the violent cunning or ruthless man seizes the envied good things of the world and the pious man goes away empty. Obscure, unfeeling, unloving powers determine our fate. The systems of rewards and punishments which religion describes ... C. S. Lewis, throughout the first half of his life, also described himself, like Freud, as an "out-and-out unbeliever." If Freud wavered in his unbelief as a college student, Lewis flaunted his atheism as a student at Oxford. ...
Often enough the violent cunning or ruthless man seizes the envied good things of the world and the pious man goes away empty. Obscure, unfeeling, unloving powers determine our fate. The systems of rewards and punishments which religion describes ... C. S. Lewis, throughout the first half of his life, also described himself, like Freud, as an "out-and-out unbeliever." If Freud wavered in his unbelief as a college student, Lewis flaunted his atheism as a student at Oxford. ...