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The definitive exploration of C.S. Lewis's philosophical thought, and its connection with his theological and literary workArguably one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, C.S. Lewis is widely hailed as a literary giant, his seven-volume Chronicles of Narnia having sold over 65 million copies in print worldwide. A prolific author and scholar whose intellectual contributions transcend the realm of children's fantasy literature, Lewis is commonly read and studied as a significant theological figure in his own right. What is often overlooked is that Lewis first loved and was academically trained in philosophy.In this newest addition to the Blackwell Great Minds series, well-known philosopher and Lewis authority Stewart Goetz discusses Lewis's philosophical thought and illustrates how it informs his theological and literary work. Drawing from Lewis's published writing and private correspondence, including unpublished materials, C.S. Lewis is the first book to develop a cohesive and holistic understanding of Lewis as a philosopher. In this groundbreaking project, Goetz explores how Lewis's views on topics of lasting interest such as happiness, morality, the soul, human freedom, reason, and imagination shape his understanding of myth and his use of it in his own stories, establishing new connections between Lewis's philosophical convictions and his wider body of published work.Written in a scholarly yet accessible style, this short, engaging book makes a significant contribution to Lewis scholarship while remaining suitable for readers who have only read his stories, offering new insight into the intellectual life of this figure of enduring popular interest.

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Acknowledgments ixIntroduction 11 A Philosophical Mind 91.1 A Brief Biography 91.2 Lewis as a Philosopher 181.3 Lewis and Common Sense 211.4 Reading Lewis 241.5 What Is to Come 252 The Thinking, Reasoning, and Sensing Soul 272.1 The Aboutness of Thought 272.2 Reasoning and the Falsity of Naturalism 302.3 A Possible Quibble 432.4 Caveat: Bulverism 442.5 First?] and Third?]Person Points of View 462.6 The Soul 482.7 Thought, Image, and the Immaterial 532.8 Pleasurable Reason 553 The Meaning of Life 603.1 Setting the Stage 603.2 The Purpose of Life 643.3 What Makes Life Worth Living 673.4 Pain, Pleasure, and Happiness 683.5 An Alternative Rejected 693.6 Space, Time, and Meaning 723.7 Another Alternative Rejected 763.8 Joy or Sehnsucht 783.9 Things Making Sense 844 Morality 884.1 More Than Morality 884.2 Morality, Pleasure, and Happiness 904.3 Pride 954.4 Moral Value and Purpose for Acting 984.5 Euthyphro's Dilemma 1024.6 Natural Law 1044.7 Heaven Without Morality 1094.8 Naturalism and Morality 1114.9 Naturalism and Making Sense of Things 1154.10 Naturalism, Science, and Certitude 1175 Free Choice and Miracles 1205.1 Lewis the Supernaturalist 1205.2 Choice 1225.3 The Nature of Freedom 1245.4 The "Iffyness" of Nature 1255.5 Arguments Against Mental?]to?]Physical Causation 1275.6 The Relevance of the Subnatural 1365.7 Lewis as a Causal Interactionist 1375.8 "Miracles" and Miracles 1406 The Grand Miracle, Death to Self, and Myth 1436.1 Incarnation 1436.2 The Seed Must Die 1466.3 The Paradox of Hedonism 1486.4 Pleasure and Passion 1536.5 Myth 1547 Belief in God 1597.1 Reason and Religion 1597.2 Supernaturalism versus Theistic Supernaturalism 1607.3 From Self to God 1617.4 Further Considerations 1687.5 The Argument from Desire 1728 The Problem of Evil 1808.1 Statement of the Problem 1808.2 Human Beings and Evil 1828.3 The Irrelevance of Possible Worlds 1858.4 Lewis's View of the Fall 1888.5 Imaginative Metaphysics and Evolution 1898.6 Evil Before the Existence of Human Beings 1928.7 Evil and Beasts 1928.8 Hell 1969 An Enduring Mind 199Bibliography 202Index 210