Download PDF by Timothy M. Mosteller,Gayne John Anacker: Contemporary Perspectives on C.S. Lewis' 'The Abolition of

By Timothy M. Mosteller,Gayne John Anacker

starting with a transparent account of the historic environment for The Abolition of Man and its position inside of C.S. Lewis' corpus of writing, Contemporary views on C. S. Lewis' The Abolition of guy: background, Philosophy, schooling and technology assesses and appraises Lewis' seminal lectures, offering a radical research of the topics and topics which are raised.

Chapters specialise in the foremost components of proposal together with: philosophy, normal legislation, schooling, literature, politics, theology, technology, biotechnology and the relationship among the Ransom Trilogy. Drawing on Lewis' imperative rules, they take on questions comparable to, is The Abolition of Man opposed to clinical inquiry? Does Lewis offer an sufficient rational safety of traditional ethical legislations? Do the lectures tackle the philosophical questions of the twenty first century as Lewis sought to supply solutions to philosophical questions of the twentieth century?

Dealing with subject matters throughout a number of components of human inquiry, the authors deliver services from their respective fields to undergo at the center matters raised in Lewis' lectures. the result's an interdisciplinary technique that gives the 1st finished scholarly remedy of The Abolition of Man, the most debated of Lewis' works.

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