Young Heretics

Ep. 5: The Greatest Intellectual of the 20th Century

Jun 16, 2020

01:22:09

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C.S. Lewis

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The Essence of Humanity and the Mistake We Make

01:29

The power of Christianity as a true myth

01:17

C.S. Lewis' Context and Approach in Mere Christianity

01:22

The importance of nurturing just sentiments in children

01:25

Introduction

4min

Lewis Was an Atheist and a Public Intellectual in World War Two

2min

What Is the Biggest Fantasy of All in That World?

2min

A Very Successful Intellectual at a Young Age

2min

The Kind of Conversion That Lewis Has Is Not a Conversion

2min

Is There Something Terribly Lacking From the Modernist Fiction?

3min

Tolkin Convinces Lewis of a True Myth

2min

Lewis, the Man Who Saves Britain From Despair

2min

The Abolition of Man and the Weight of Glory

2min

10.

Lewis's Waight of Glory Is the Positive Argument for the Abolition of Man

2min

11.

Isn't It a Carol, a Son Is Born Unto Us?

3min

12.

Why Do Tyrants Go After Kids?

2min

13.

The Children of Europe Are Being Terribly Deformed in Their Education

2min

14.

What Is the Difference Between Fact and Value?

2min

15.

The Right Defence Against False Sentiment

3min

16.

Lewis Argues Against Freud

2min

17.

The Abolition of Man, Part One

3min

18.

The Doo De Che

2min

19.

The Innovator, You Knowi's Lecture on the Tao

2min

20.

Lewis Is Arguing for the Preservation and the Resurrection of Morality

2min

21.

Is There Any Instinct to Care for Posterity or Preserve the Species?

2min

22.

Abolition of Man - Part II

3min

23.

How to Change the Moral Rules of the Universe

2min

24.

The Domination of Nature

3min

25.

All Motives Fail

2min

26.

Is Your Subjective Experience of the World What Makes You Human?

2min

27.

The Beauty of the Sunset Only Exists in My Mind

2min

28.

Quantum Physicists Are Beginning to Confirm What Lewis Argus in the Abolition of Man

2min

29.

The Weight of Glory - The Weight of Glory

4min

30.

The Greatest Intellectual of the Twenty-First Century

3min

31.

Lewis - A Biography of the Former Don, 1990

2min

32.

The Idiod and the Odessey

2min

33.

What's the Greek Idea of Tragedy?

2min

34.

The Mail Bag and Homer's Vision

2min

Was C.S. Lewis the 20th century’s greatest thinker? Lewis was a war veteran, the unofficial pastor of the West in its darkest hour, and a supremely gifted philosopher with a masterfully light touch. In this episode of Young Heretics, Spencer Klavan takes the audience through a close look at Lewis’s The Abolition of Man to prove that those who dismiss Lewis as “just the Narnia guy” are just plain wrong.

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