Cs Lewis Chapter Summaries

Chapter One:

C.S. Lewis, a Philosopher

Clive Staples Lewis was born last November 29, 1989 in Belfast, Ireland. He was commonly known as a novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist and a Christian apologist. He was best known for his fictional works such as The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilogy. Before being known from his fictional works, he also wrote non-fictional works that captured the attention of the people during the twentieth century. Some of his well-known non-fictional Christian apologetics works are Mere Christianity, Miracles and The Problem of Pain. Being a successful Christian apologists countless biographies and critics of his life and of his work.

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Lewis was educated. Moreover, Lewis’s philosophical outlook was intricately tangled with what he called joy. For C.S. Lewis, the attainment of joy is the primary goal in life. As Lewis grow older his feelings of joy became less frequent. Lewis then describe that feeling as sehnsucht, the German word for longing. C.S. Lewis’s sehnsucht takes it root from Lewis’s personal experience after her mother’s death and his severe distaste for his English boarding school contribute more to his feeling of disconsolation. This lead C.S. Lewis to abandon his Christian faith and seek out other ways that will lead him for the joy that he seek. He turned to realism thinking that it will provide the framework in fulfilling his

Lewis described a feeling of uncertainty and it was uncertainty that Lewis’ reason, grounded in the present and could not answer. Lewis search for the truth now began to lead him away from realism and bring him towards idealism. Lewis began to realize that if aesthetic experience is valuable, then values must exist. Lewis also discovered that Christians were good writers. Lewis said: "The only non-Christians who seemed to me to know anything were the Romantics; and a good many of them were dangerously tinged with something like religion, even at times with Christianity." Although, for Lewis Christianity in not a practical answer to his question, his shift from realism left Lewis in a state of uncertainty. Lewis then concluded that the mind was "no late phenomena . . . the whole universe was in the last resort mental; . . . our logic was participation in the cosmic logos." Lewis now conceived reality in a unified whole and based in the absolute that is taught by