Summary Of Cs Lewis Naturalism

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C.S. Lewis’ main objection to naturalism was that the reasoning experiences cannot be credited with a naturalistic premise. “...unless Reason is an absolute – all {science} is in ruins. Yet those who ask me to believe this world picture also ask me to believe that Reason is simply the unforeseen and unintended by-product of mindless matter at one state of its endless and aimless becoming. Here is flat contradiction. They ask me at the same moment to accept a conclusion and to discredit the only testimony on which that conclusion can be based” (Lewis 1949) Lewis argument has three aspects: First, if all that exist is matter, then our beliefs are causes by a purely simple material process. In short, there would be no other available processes