The Abolition of Man: A Roundtable

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Chris invites several guests to talk about the following question in a two-hour roundtable special:

To what extent is Lewis' The Abolition of Man prescient or prophetic?

I really enjoyed this roundtable discussion between:

and

I hope you will, too.

We talk a lot about the following subjects:

What Lewis means by "nature"
Whether Lewis is, being coy, retreating into simplicity, playing a "forced card trick" or some other manner of knavish chicanery
Whether Lewis eternalizes historically contingent ideas, such as the Romantic view of the sublime
Wittgenstein
McIntyre
Barfield
The importance of story
Whether the difference between moderns and ancients is as great as Lewis assumes
Whether we should have that appendix out or not

Feel free to shoot me an email if you'd like to add your two cents!

I know, this isn't exactly beach listening, but I sure enjoyed it. We'll be back again in two weeks with lighter fare.

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