| Edition |
1st edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One; Chapter 1 Hedonistic Happiness; Common sense and happiness; The nature of happiness, good, and evil; Euthyphro and action ; Hedonism; The relation between happiness and morality; Eudaemonism; Possible objections to Lewis's understanding of happiness; Natural law; Joy or Sehnsucht; Can we really understand the nature of perfect happiness?; Chapter 2 Supernatural Persons; The body and happiness; Lewis's view of the body; Mental-to-mental causation; Mental-to-physical causation; The soul is the person. |
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Once more on common senseThe pleasure of the soul; Part Two; Chapter 3 Privation and Goodness; Augustine, Aquinas, and Lewis; Augustine's understanding of evil; Aquinas's understanding of evil; Is pain evil?; Aquinas's account of pleasure, happiness, and goodness; Eudaemonism and "Good"; Lewis and Aquinas; Chapter 4 Body and Soul; Cartesian dualism; Aquinas's view of the soul; Aquinas's view of the body; What would Lewis have thought?; The resurrection body's relationship to pleasure and happiness; Lewis, Aquinas, and the soul; A section not strictly necessary; Part Three. |
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Chapter 5 A Rational JourneyWhy not Roman Catholicism?; Conversion and mere Christianity; Firmly an Anglican; Lack of exposure; Homegrown prejudices; Vocational aspirations; Ignorance of history; Difficulties based in reason; Thomas Aquinas and Roman Catholicism; Common sense, mere Christianity, and Roman Catholicism; Conclusion; Bibliography; Author Index. |
| Summary |
Although it has been almost seventy years since Time declared C.S. Lewis one of the world's most influential spokespersons for Christianity and fifty years since Lewis's death, his influence remains just as great if not greater today. While much has been written on Lewis and his work, virtually nothing has been written from a philosophical perspective on his views of happiness, pleasure, pain, and the soul and body. As a result, no one so far has recognized that his views on these matters are deeply interesting and controversial, and-perhaps more jarring-no one has yet adequately ex. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963.
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Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963. |
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Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963 -- Religion.
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Religion. |
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Catholic Church -- Controversial literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Controversial literature.
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Catholic Church. |
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Église catholique -- Ouvrages de controverse. |
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Pleasure.
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Pleasure. |
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Happiness.
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Happiness. |
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Soul.
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Soul. |
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Pleasure -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Pleasure -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. |
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Happiness -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Philosophy of religion. |
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers. |
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Philosophy. |
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RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Systematic. |
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Happiness -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. |
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- General. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Goetz, Stewart. Philosophical walking tour with C.S. Lewis. 1st edition 9781628923179 (DLC) 2014029808 (OCoLC)869437759 |
| ISBN |
9781628923209 (electronic book) |
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1628923202 (electronic book) |
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9781628923193 |
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1628923199 |
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9781501305030 (online) |
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1501305034 |
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9781628923179 |
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1628923172 |
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9781628923162 |
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1628923164 |
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