There are several C.S. lewis sites and youtube video channels. However, Just this morning a subscribed to a really good one that could actually be the backbone of a bible study course. It makes his quotations extremely interesting to “watch”.
It’s called CSLewisDoodle: https://www.youtube.com/user/CSLewisDoodle
In fact, here is chapter 3 of “the abolution of man” at CSLEWISDOODLE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idgYLTnSzxI
This one is absolutely excellent. It’s on subjectivity.
The poison of subjectivism:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgcd6jvsCFs
It is important to keep in mind when this was penned to better understand the examples he uses.(WWII era)
Don’t forget that the N.I.C.E. was defeated by the power of five angels each responsible for a separate planet, in conjunction with some few Christians and a historical Merlin from Arthurian legend.
“...the fates of traditional morality and individual liberty are inextricably linked.”
Indeed. You govern yourself so that you need not be governed.
This seems hopelessly lost today in America.
Thanks for posting.
Haven’t read those books in a long time, but I suspect that in the end, it’s more of a fusion of ‘all of the above’. The pleasures of Huxley, the boot of Orwell, the mental chicanery that Lewis foresaw. But even these may be transitory phases. In the end, I suspect ‘their’ vision is NK for all.
[[but the West’s abandonment of natural law and God.]]
Anyone with 1/2 a brain can see why abandoning God in this country will lead to our downfall, the road to ruin.
As someone said “If everyone obeyed the great commandment, to love your neighbor as yourself, there would be no need for laws” Do away with that commandment altogether, and begin to serve just yourself because you feel you are owede great respect- and you get anarchy- chaos- breakdown-
[[but there exists a transcendent moral order that can be found across cultures.]]
This moral order- or as i like to call it, the objective universal moral code’, is the Holy Spirit- He tries throughout everyone’s lifetime to stimulate their conscience to act upon this universal moral code, and to recognize eventually that this code is given by a code giver- God- and to urge us to turn to Him through Christ-
Sadly though many will sear their inner conscience, and never turn to God- but nearly everyone at soem point in their life has their consciences pricked, and know they are breaking the absolute moral code when they do so-
[[Jettisoning traditional morality might feel like a liberation, but it’s actually, as Lewis sees it, the beginning of the most awful tyranny imaginable.]]
Exactly- the secularist thinks it ‘freedom’ to move away from the objective moral code, but it’s not!
[[Yet without the Tao, they will have nothing to inform their decisions except instinct and desire,]]
I might just add “instinct and desire controlled by subjective feelings of lust and covetousness, not by objective moral codes
[[the N.I.C.E. genuinely believe they can create a better humanity,]]
Liberals today are no better- they believe they can create a ‘nicer generation’ by allowing everyone to act on their subjective impulses and do whatever makes them happy- problem is, then you have to assign someone as over-seer to make sure one person’s happiness doesn’t infringe on someone else’s happiness- little do they know, the objective moral code sets that standard already- but the left want to do away with that objective moral code, and replace it with subjective immoral feelings, desires and lusts and covetousness- thinking this will free us from the restrictive bindings of morality and free us to be happy=- it won’t- it will just enable more people to trample the rights of others, and be open to subjective restrictions that do nothing but end up punishing the moral and rewarding then immoral depending o n the ever changing subjective whims of the day of those in charge-
I think it;s entirely possible that the ‘great delusion’ that will come upon mankind in the end times is the idea that subjective ideals replace objective code, and it;s touted as the ‘new morality’ that everyone must obey- society is being brainwashed to believe that immorality is morality. subjective feelings are objective truth. we’re seeing it play out with the bastardization of the word gender, and the slow criminalization of the Christian faith in public-
ok, enough thinking for one year!
[[Because if humanity as we know it is to be abolished... It will be by elites]]
Backed by the military, or even by an international one world force
[[and think they can conjure up something better.]]
there is nothing new under the sun= nothing- objective moral code is still the very best means of a polite and civil society- the left under the control of the Evil One however, will never accept that, because it means that we the people have the power, NOT the elite-
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“The world is trying the experiment of attempting to form a civilized but non-Christian mentality. The experiment will fail; but we must be very patient in awaiting its collapse; meanwhile redeeming the time; so that the Faith may be preserved alive through the dark ages before us; to renew and rebuild civilization, and to save the world from suicide.”
T.S. Eliot, Christianity and Culture
Ping
Bacon was channeling Descartes who was the real bad guy.
C.S. Lewis Bookmark
This describes Gender Reassignment.
Walter Hooper reports (on Socrates in the City) that while Lewis thought his best book was Perelandra, his favorite was That Hideous Strength.
PFL
Not a bad description of the supposed "global warming" emergency...
Just to pass along the info. Last year I bought and read “The Fellowship — The Literary Lives of the INKLINGS — JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis, Owen Barfield, and Charles Williams” by Philip and Carol Zaleski.
It’s a very detailed history on how their writings fueled their fellowship.
There are some authors speculative opinions about the subjects personal lives that intrude a little but such is expected in scholarly studies where the authors have spent a lifetime studying such interior figures.