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C.S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea: a Philosophical Defense of Lewis's Argument from Reason

A Philosophical Defense of Lewis's Argument from Reason

  • Paperback
  • 132 pages
  • Publisher: Intervarsity Press (IVP Academic)
  • 14.2 x 20.9 x 1.1 cm

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Darwinists attempt to use science to show that our world and its inhabitants can be fully explained as the product of a mindless, purposeless system of physics and chemistry. But Lewis claimed in his argument from reason that if such materialism or naturalism were true then scientific reasoning itself could not be trusted. Victor Reppert believes that Lewis's arguments have been too often dismissed. InC. S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea Reppert offers careful, able development of Lewis's thought and demonstrates that the basic thrust of Lewis's argument from reason can bear up under the weight of the most serious philosophical attacks. Charging dismissive critics, Christian and not, withad hominem arguments, Reppert also revisits the debate and subsequent interaction between Lewis and the philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe. And addressing those who might be afflicted with philosophical snobbery, Reppert demonstrates that Lewis's powerful philosophical instincts perhaps ought to place him among those other thinkers who, by contemporary standards, were also amateurs: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes, Spinoza, Locke and Hume. But even more than this, Reppert's work exemplifies the truth that the greatness of Lewis's mind is best measured, not by his ability to do our thinking for us, but by his capacity to provide sound direction for taking our own thought further up and further in.
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  • Author

    Victor Reppert

  • Book Format

    paperback

  • Publisher

    Intervarsity Press (IVP Academic)

  • Published

    September 2003

  • Weight

    173g

  • Page Count

    132

  • Dimensions

    14.2 x 20.9 x 1.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780830827329

  • ISBN-10

    0830827323

  • Eden Code

    93156

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