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Hmm ,Interesting as C S Lewis is ( and I have enjoyed many of his writings) I actually think that statement begins with a fallacy or at least an unproven statement which he asserts with such authority that people assume it is a fact rather than a belief.
It’s a clever sleight of hand that he uses often in his writing.
( And notice the nod to his misogynistic views😱😬)
He was undoubtedly a spiritual person. It permeates all his writing. But was he “good”. At lot of the time he was simply awful to those he considered less than himself. Arrogant, unjust, selfish, conceited and definitely indoctrinated.
Oh dear.
Having read C S Lewis‘s autobiography, Surprised by Joy, I can say that whatever his faults may have been he was undoubtably an independent thinker and in no way indoctrinated. As he wrote, ‘I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.’ He had been thinking about this for years and was reluctantly convinced.
I do know that Lewis bothered writing back by hand to every reader who wrote to him via his publishers, including children, so he wasn’t that selfish.
Do you mean that ‘Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists’ is an unproven statement? I can’t think of any desires that creatures are born with without satisfaction for those desires existing, can you?
By ‘men’ Lewis may well have meant ‘human beings’ rather than ‘males’. He was writing in the 1940s, after all. So I don’t think he was necessarily being misogynistic there.
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