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Author:   Stewart Goetz (Ursinus College in Pennsylvania, USA)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.60cm
Weight:   0.295kg
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9781119190066

ISBN 10:   1119190061
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   16 February 2018
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1 A Philosophical Mind 9 1.1 A Brief Biography 9 1.2 Lewis as a Philosopher 18 1.3 Lewis and Common Sense 21 1.4 Reading Lewis 24 1.5 What is to Come 25 2 The Thinking, Reasoning, and Sensing Soul 27 2.1 The Aboutness of Thought 27 2.2 Reasoning and the Falsity of Naturalism 30 2.3 A Possible Quibble 43 2.4 Caveat: Bulverism 44 2.5 First‐ and Third‐Person Points of View 46 2.6 The Soul 48 2.7 Thought, Image, and the Immaterial 53 2.8 Pleasurable Reason 55 3 The Meaning of Life 60 3.1 Setting the Stage 60 3.2 The Purpose of Life 64 3.3 What Makes Life Worth Living 67 3.4 Pain, Pleasure, and Happiness 68 3.5 An Alternative Rejected 69 3.6 Space, Time, and Meaning 72 3.7 Another Alternative Rejected 76 3.8 Joy or Sehnsucht 78 3.9 Things Making Sense 84 4 Morality 88 4.1 More Than Morality 88 4.2 Morality, Pleasure, and Happiness 90 4.3 Pride 95 4.4 Moral Value and Purpose for Acting 98 4.5 Euthyphro’s Dilemma 102 4.6 Natural Law 104 4.7 Heaven Without Morality 109 4.8 Naturalism and Morality 111 4.9 Naturalism and Making Sense of Things 115 4.10 Naturalism, Science, and Certitude 117 5 Free Choice and Miracles 120 5.1 Lewis the Supernaturalist 120 5.2 Choice 122 5.3 The Nature of Freedom 124 5.4 The “Iffyness” of Nature 125 5.5 Arguments Against Mental‐to‐Physical Causation 127 5.6 The Relevance of the Subnatural 136 5.7 Lewis as a Causal Interactionist 137 5.8 “Miracles” and Miracles 140 6 The Grand Miracle, Death to Self, and Myth 143 6.1 Incarnation 143 6.2 The Seed Must Die 146 6.3 The Paradox of Hedonism 148 6.4 Pleasure and Passion 153 6.5 Myth 154 7 Belief in God 159 7.1 Reason and Religion 159 7.2 Supernaturalism versus Theistic Supernaturalism 160 7.3 From Self to God 161 7.4 Further Considerations 168 7.5 The Argument from Desire 172 8 The Problem of Evil 180 8.1 Statement of the Problem 180 8.2 Human Beings and Evil 182 8.3 The Irrelevance of Possible Worlds 185 8.4 Lewis’s View of the Fall 188 8.5 Imaginative Metaphysics and Evolution 189 8.6 Evil Before the Existence of Human Beings 192 8.7 Evil and Beasts 192 8.8 Hell 196 9 An Enduring Mind 199 Bibliography 202 Index 210

Reviews

Goetz does an excellent job of bringing together, not only from the published works but also from the letters and unpublished manuscripts, the disparate remarks that Lewis makes on each topic that Goetz covers in this book. Since the Lewis corpus is both large and diverse, he deserves the gratitude of every reader of Lewis for successfully completing this rather daunting task. - David McNaughton, University of Edinburgh, Journal of Inklings Studies, Volume 9, Issue 2, November 2019

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Stewart Goetz is Professor of Philosophy at Ursinus College, and is a visiting scholar at St. Peter's College, Oxford. He has published over 60 articles, chapters, and reviews in philosophy and philosophy of religion journals, and co-authored A Brief History of the Soul (Wiley Blackwell, 2011). He is the author of A Philosophical Walking Tour with C.S. Lewis (2014), and is co-editing the forthcoming Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Religion.

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