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C. S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea: In Defense of the Argument from Reason (edition 2003)

by Victor Reppert

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Who ought to hold claim to the more dangerous idea--Charles Darwin or C. S. Lewis? Daniel Dennett argued for Darwin in Darwin's Dangerous Idea (Touchstone Books, 1996). In this book Victor Reppert champions C. S. Lewis.Darwinists attempt to use science to show that our world and its inhabitants can be fully explained as the product of a mindless, purposeless system of physics and chemistry. But Lewis claimed in his argument from reason that if such materialism or naturalism were true then scientific reasoning itself could not be trusted. Victor Reppert believes that Lewis's arguments have been too often dismissed. In C. S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea Reppert offers careful, able development of Lewis's thought and demonstrates that the basic thrust of Lewis's argument from reason can bear up under the weight of the most serious philosophical attacks. Charging dismissive critics, Christian and not, with ad hominem arguments, Reppert also revisits the debate and subsequent interaction between Lewis and the philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe. And addressing those who might be afflicted with philosophical snobbery, Reppert demonstrates that Lewis's powerful philosophical instincts perhaps ought to place him among those other thinkers who, by contemporary standards, were also amateurs: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes, Spinoza, Locke and Hume. But even more than this, Reppert's work exemplifies the truth that the greatness of Lewis's mind is best measured, not by his ability to do our thinking for us, but by his capacity to provide sound direction for taking our own thought further up and further in.… (more)
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Title:C. S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea: In Defense of the Argument from Reason
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I took this book to explore my knowledge on the Argument from Reason. In fact, this book would be the best book to read about it. I have to say, it was difficult to understand a lot of the concepts but it intrigued my interest to read Wittgenstein and Anscombe.

One thing which struck was the different types of explanations given by Anscombe
1) Naturalistic causal explanation
2) Logical explanation
3) Psychological explanation
4) Personal history of explanation, where a person describes how he came to such and such beliefs

Anscombe explains that if a person has reasons, if they are good reasons and they are genuine, then his thought is rational.

A man might die from a heart attack, a naturalistic explanation would be because of less exercise, blockage in his heart value, meanwhile a person might also explain it as a cause of voodoo curse. This
piqued my interest in Wittgenstein.

Overall, I do think he defends the Argument from Reason, you might bump into Philosophy of Mind & Science.
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  gottfried_leibniz | Apr 5, 2018 |
I took this book to explore my knowledge on the Argument from Reason. In fact, this book would be the best book to read about it. I have to say, it was difficult to understand a lot of the concepts but it intrigued my interest to read Wittgenstein and Anscombe.

One thing which struck was the different types of explanations given by Anscombe
1) Naturalistic causal explanation
2) Logical explanation
3) Psychological explanation
4) Personal history of explanation, where a person describes how he came to such and such beliefs

Anscombe explains that if a person has reasons, if they are good reasons and they are genuine, then his thought is rational.

A man might die from a heart attack, a naturalistic explanation would be because of less exercise, blockage in his heart value, meanwhile a person might also explain it as a cause of voodoo curse. This
piqued my interest in Wittgenstein.

Overall, I do think he defends the Argument from Reason, you might bump into Philosophy of Mind & Science.
( )
  gottfried_leibniz | Apr 5, 2018 |
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Who ought to hold claim to the more dangerous idea--Charles Darwin or C. S. Lewis? Daniel Dennett argued for Darwin in Darwin's Dangerous Idea (Touchstone Books, 1996). In this book Victor Reppert champions C. S. Lewis.Darwinists attempt to use science to show that our world and its inhabitants can be fully explained as the product of a mindless, purposeless system of physics and chemistry. But Lewis claimed in his argument from reason that if such materialism or naturalism were true then scientific reasoning itself could not be trusted. Victor Reppert believes that Lewis's arguments have been too often dismissed. In C. S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea Reppert offers careful, able development of Lewis's thought and demonstrates that the basic thrust of Lewis's argument from reason can bear up under the weight of the most serious philosophical attacks. Charging dismissive critics, Christian and not, with ad hominem arguments, Reppert also revisits the debate and subsequent interaction between Lewis and the philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe. And addressing those who might be afflicted with philosophical snobbery, Reppert demonstrates that Lewis's powerful philosophical instincts perhaps ought to place him among those other thinkers who, by contemporary standards, were also amateurs: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes, Spinoza, Locke and Hume. But even more than this, Reppert's work exemplifies the truth that the greatness of Lewis's mind is best measured, not by his ability to do our thinking for us, but by his capacity to provide sound direction for taking our own thought further up and further in.

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