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Author: David Rozema
Lewis and Wittgenstein on Facts and Meanings
by David Rozema • February 17, 2011 • 0 Comments
In a short paper all I can do is whet your appetite, if you have a taste for philosophical investigations. In other words, the best I can do is tease you. By 'a taste for philosophical investigations', I mean a fascination with certain questions-questions about ultimate meaning, but whose meaning is, ultimately, the question. For example, "What is truth?"; "What is reality?"; "What is knowledge?"; "What is the self?"; "What is meaning?" These are philosophical questions, both because the answers we give to them will shape the way we live our lives (and in that sense are ultimately meaningful), and because they are questions whose meanings are themselves so puzzling.
Lewis's Rejection of Nihilism: The Tao and the Problem of Moral Knowledge
by David Rozema • September 28, 2007 • 1 Comment
C. S. Lewis published The Abolition of Man in 1944 in the midst of World War II. We can perhaps imagine the ominous and suggestive nature of this timing. But, as readers soon discovered, the book was not at all about the War, or Hitler's eugenics, or the looming nuclear threat. Lewis's real subject is the soul and its education. According to Lewis, the real enemy—more dangerous than any nation, weapon, or science—is a philosophy: nihilism. It is perhaps a bit misleading to say that nihilism is a "post-modern" philosophy, for there have been nihilists and advocates of nihilism as long as there have been men. But it is true that this philosophy has come to be more widely preached and practiced in our time than ever before. In The Abolition of Man Lewis both explains and combats this modern (post-modern) development.
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