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Podcast Episode 41: Michael Ward: A Guide to C.S. Lewis’ The Abolition of Man

The Moral Imagination

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The Chest of Integral Humanity

Hume, Kant and Kierkegaard all taking different approaches to the synthesis of the head and the belly. And none of them is satisfactory in Lewis's view, or indeed in my view too. He seems to me to make a very integrated and holistic account of the human person. We shouldn't be ashamed of our passions. The question is how to govern our passions and to reign them in in a way which doesn't either corrupt them or completely squelch them. Using the chest as a kind of airlock, as it were, so you're not just smushing up your reason against your passions, but you have this middle ground as a way of integrating them holistically.

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