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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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Power Is Not Everything, but It's Not Everything

C.S. Lewis was very alive to the fact that might is not right, he says. There is such a thing as a Pyrrhic victory: it's sometimes better to lose than live badly. The power always stands in relation to the good, the true and the beautiful, you say. "I think we have to be always on card of that"

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