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Episode 124: “The Abolition of Man” by C. S. Lewis, Ch. 1

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Plato and the Head and the Chest

In the renaissance view, that tripartite soul was described as the reason, the will and the passions. For them, reason was the name for the image of god in us. And a properly ordered man is going to be ruled by those things - you could call it godly wisdom. So we can't forget that louis is a mediaevalist, and so he's going to have a very mediaeval undertanding of what it means to be properly ordered.

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