After Humanity: A Guide to C.S. Lewis’s ‘The Abolition of Man’ w/ Father Michael Ward
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2022
- We are happy to present a free talk with Father Michael Ward.
Commenting on his book, The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis once wrote that it was “almost my favorite among my books,” lamenting that “in general [the book] has been almost totally ignored by the public.” Today Lewis’s essay on education, morality, and anthropology has become more timely than ever. Join us for a lecture by Fr. Michael Ward, world-renowned Lewis scholar and author of After Humanity: A Guide to C.S. Lewis’s ‘The Abolition of Man,’ as Fr. Ward explores Lewis’s essay and the light it can shed on life today.
Brilliant, faithful, winsome, and challenging lecture, something I think Lewis himself would appreciate if not applaud. Our high school seniors have read the Abolition of Man annually for over 20 years.
Fr. Ward, you love who and what I love, therefore, you are my friend. You gave me a key with which the "The Abolition of Man" opened before me.
Magnificent! So timeless, and relevant to the world of today.
I always enjoy listening to Fr. Ward.
As Lewis brilliantly reasons in his book The Abolution of Man the abolishment of the Tao - the universal moral law - results in man's abolition of man. Outside the Tao, Man's supposed conquest of nature ends in nature's conquest of Man. The Tao is the sole source of all value judgements. If it is rejected all value is rejected. What purport to be new systems all consist of fragments from the Tao itself arbitrarily wrenched from their context in the whole and then swollen to madness in their isolation and yet still owing to the Tao alone such validity as they possess.
The rebellion of new ideologies against the Tao is a rebellion of the branches against the tree. The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of imagining a new primary color or of inventing a new sun and a new sky for it to move in....
Outside the Tao there is no ground for criticizing either the Tao or anything else.
I enjoyed this talk very much thank you
So absolutely incredible!!
Wonderful.
Such a great talk
An absolutely shocking little book that kicks the entire field of critical theory into the gutter and gives it a savage beating.
I wish this video had managed to display the power point slides the speaker referenced in his talk
His book Planet Narnia is fascinating
Can we get the slides?
Hi please , I want to visit the place where C.S. Lewis lived....
When you say that his argument is not explicitly Christian you imply that it is implicitly so. That undermines his whole project. His position is that what he says needs no Christian backing, that all reasonable people recognize the truths he is elaborating.
Jesus's life is the only regenerative v. a soldier's fated for salvaging nation.
Hearty maybe that regenerative for life as energy is fed in and thinking out of it, yet unless humans reborn like a grain in ground only eaten up?!
20mins in and the speaker still hasn’t started talking about the subject matter of the book. I give up.
Such highfalutin gobbledygook
Usurping Protestant classics, eh?
A boring speaker, but some interesting quotes towards the end.
I love listening to him. Also appreciate his pace as note taking is easy. 😊
@@vivatregina1 Conversely one can increase the playback speed if one finds the pace too plodding