I should start by saying that, although this philosophy symposium is about the search for meaning, discussions which rely on the term “meaning” in talking about the human search for a meaningful life seem to me to be largely modern discussions. I don’t think you’ll find historically many philosophers writing about the conditions for a “meaningful life”. But philosophers have talked a great deal about a “good life”, and they’ve offered theories as to...
C. S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis and the Information Society: A Dialogue
What advice would C S Lewis offer us in today's world? The 21st Century is the setting wherein powerful forces are set to meet and perhaps to clash. Self and the search for meaning are at the heart of these putative clashes. They include, but are not limited to, (a) the emerging of so called intelligent information technology, (b) the impact of psychological theories on everyday life and (c) the continuing thirst...
Hope in Teaching and Teaching in Hope
Along with content knowledge and pedagogical skill, teachers' personal qualities impact their classrooms and their work with depth and significance. The moral qualities that teachers bring with them into the classroom inform decisions, direct practice, and guide the culture of the learning community. Hope is an important virtue and motivation for teachers in every teaching situation and context, for hope pervades every aspect of the experience of teaching.
Self and Other in Lewis and Levinas
So far as I can tell, virtually no has commented on the connections between C. S. Lewis and Emmanuel Levinas-one possible exception being Pope John Paul II, a great admirer of both writers (see Hooper xii; John Paul II 36). But the connections are profound and undeniable. I've found no evidence that Levinas read Lewis's work, nor any that Lewis was acquainted directly with the thought of Levinas, though Levinas became an important figure...
C. S. Lewis on the Modernization of Higher Education
The body of C.S. Lewis' work, from his essays to his fiction, plumbs key problems caused in higher education by Modernists. In both The Screwtape Letters and The Abolition of Man, he delineates the devolution of human souls deprived of meaning and dependent only on material fact. In the third book of his science fiction trilogy, That Hideous Strength, he creates vivid scenes of battle between two warring factions, the Progressives...
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