C S Lewis, The Abolition of Man and the Removal of Virtue from Education
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- C.S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man is a prophetic text. It speaks of the unique educational perspective of his time, which has continued to our day.
For me, this lecture is illustrative of one of the main ways of framing the entirety of Lewis's life as a scholar, novelist, critic, and Christian apologist.
Lewis frames the character of the dominant educational model of his day by its rejection of what has been variously described by the moral law, or 'the law of human nature'. This is not an incidental rejection. It thereby jettisons the essential character of education as understood by both pagans and Christians (and, as he will show in Ch 2, of all major religions).
What it thereby does is to deny the assessment of human nature that the Apostle Paul describes in Romans 1 and 2, the revelation of God by what later Protestant writers ascribe to common grace.
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Good Lecture! Sir, I am glad you mention the Doctrine of Tolerance with the Nazi Germany being very tolerant with rapid change happening. I just finished the abolition of man and am rereading parts to get the full meaning of it.
What made me like Lewis in the first place was his fictional books. Not that his academics or apologetics books are lesser than his fictional ones, is just like what you said before. He is able to tell what he couldn't in his more education works.
This is not true at all. His academic works are at least as insightful, if not the basis for both his fiction and apologetics.
@@LitProf Aye. If i study more of his academic work I will see more of his insightfulness.
As I said in the premiere, this book and this concept is why I got interested into Lewis.
It’s an unusual but superb intro to Lewis’s thought.
Oh to have the pagans back. Now we have techno zombies