Getting back to a limited republic would do much to reinstate freedom and true equality.

Wow! That song at the end was POWERFUL!!!

Instinct doesn't necessarily manifest in pleasure, we have an instinct to avoid harm to the self for example. And it is likely that the total destruction would cause serious emotional pain

Incredible essay, one of Lewis' best. Thank you for uploading!

I'm confused: this is not CS Lewis speaking, correct? Where did CS Lewis write the words that are in your video, that I can see or purchase?

Great video

Thanks. I'm re-reading Mere Christianity this week.

This is exquisite. Very pertinent today. I wonder about the status of ‘positive discrimination’ which seems like the attempt to seek spiritual equality by using civil and economic law to create inequality. Lewis truly was was a prophet. Thank you so much for this.

I'm going to need to rewatch this... Like 5 times 😅 The footnotes in the description are gold

Love your work.

Lovely. This is with a different voice than the original glad these ideas are still being put out there

Excellent points. A better form of government is when local people make the decisions and the 'government' carries out their choices unequivocally. It can be done on a national level for national issues. Don't vote for people, leaders, vote on issues, what should be done, where tax money should go, that's it.

A perfect doodle for the times

Well done and well said!

Still as timely as the day it was written. Thanks for your excellent work, as usual.

Such an important message for our time!

❤❤❤❤❤ thank you

Wishing well, Wow that was medical! Wanting your best, Healthier, Kinder, Abler, Braver

A Timely message.

I love these so much please keep up the good work

This is ONE OF THE BEST channels on youtube. Thank you.

Wow, Great wisdom.

I have been trying to find a way to make this point for the last few months. Thank you for illustrating it so well.

Awesome vid!

As I get older and get exposed to more of the world I find myself looking at these doodles and writings with more fascination. Although the specifics may be different the issues that Lewis was writing about in 1943 I can see parallels in some of what I see today. These talks feel timeless to me and I always enjoy them

To this day, this stands as my favorite of Lewis' commentaries and is easily one of his most insightful. He saw right through to the heart of liberalism and equality, and warned against revering them as utopian ideals. Having seen first hand of what the end state of equality as an ideal looks like, Lewis was right on the money.

7:35) In music, polyphony is one type of musical texture. A polyphony consists of two or more simultaneous lines of independent melody, as opposed to: (a) just one voice, a monophony, or (b) one melodic voice accompanied by chords, a homophony. I have used the classic wedding music, Canon in D by Pachelbel, which starts with two identical tunes with each hand on the piano, a homophony (friendship), that then becomes richer with two different melodies with each hand, a polyphony (marriage). Husband and wife play a contrasting tune which is much harder to play, but they balance each other and help each other's weaknesses with their individual strengths. More on this in Lewis' 'The Four Loves', Eros - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jbiVf6x2lZ6onpc.html

Your video seems to coincide with something that I have long thought and I'd like your response. Truth seems to be categorized into what I call Capital T or lower case t. T is that which would be universal truths (ie those recognized as the Tau in C.S Lewis' book Abolition of Man.) On the other hand, t is that which any culture uses to define the T for a specific time and place. Small t is always something less that T but is derived from it.

32:01"...their activities in the long run always directed against their freedom" Those who offer new ethical morality.

Wow I have chills!!!! Im about to begin the book

Wow, this is pretty deep. My mind is blown like what, never really imagined the perspective of the ongoing battle. Lord, give us strength to keep enduring and spreading the gospel

Awesome thanks this drawing adds so much to this teaching great job

Love these! Great work!

I really appreciate jow this showed that, while we can be confused about various parts of morality and thus work to better understand them, we cannot ever resolve the discussion as neutral observers. Luvkily, we don't have to either, since people, at their cores, have always felt the pull of the moral law, even when they haven't wanted to.

Excellent as usual. Thank you.

How is it possible for one person to be so insightful 😭❤️ C S Lewis is amazing! Thanks for the video!! On point as always

Woohoo. A doodle vid. I long doe these. Thanks my guy.

Few things make me perk up like seeing a new CSLewisDoodle! These are awesome!

Tough to follow (I was called away again and again while watching) but very well done.

Thank you for what you do, CSLewisDoodle. My family is always happy when you release a new one of these videos.

I remember, years ago, while I was in college, being introduced to your channel and Lewis in general via a KZfaq recommendation giving me the doodle about "The Poison of Subjectivism". This is a much longer and even better writing of that essay. Thank you so much for letting me relearn that old joy. God bless.

The two giants of philosophy are (in my opinion) Aristotle over all other in the category of crude philosophy, and C.S. Lewis for advanced philosophy.

I thought your channel had stopped producing videos. I didn't see (or absent mindedly scrolled past) your last few video notices. Thank you, and carry on.

Your channel is one of the BEST because it simplifies the most difficult ideas. Thank you for bringing C.S. LEWIS to the masses.

Yay! New CS Lewis reading + art! Love these!

Q: If we accept the primary platitudes of practical reason [conscience] as the unquestioned premises of all action, are we thereby trusting our own reason so far that we ignore the [Genesis 3] Fall [of man]…? A: As regards the Fall, I submit that the general tenor of scripture does not encourage us to believe that our knowledge of the Law has been depraved in the same degree as our power to fulfil it. He would be a brave man who claimed to realize the fallen condition of man more clearly than St. Paul. In that very chapter (Roman 7) where he asserts most strongly our inability to keep the moral law he also asserts most confidently that we perceive the Law's goodness and rejoice in it according to the inward man [Romans 7:22]. Our righteousness may be filthy and ragged [Isaiah 64:6], but Christianity gives us no ground for holding that our perceptions of right are in the same condition. They may, no doubt, be impaired [1 Timothy 4:2, 1 Corinthians 4:4 - the conscience can be corrupted and taught to feel wrongly innocent or wrongly guilty - one of functions of the blood of Christ is to cleanse the conscience of this corruption - see Hebrews 9:14]; but there is a difference between imperfect sight and blindness. A theology which goes about to represent our practical reason [moral judgement] as radically unsound is heading for disaster. If we once admit that what God means by "goodness" is sheerly different from what we judge to be good, there is no difference left between pure religion and devil worship (Lewis, ‘The Poison of Subjectivism’).

Q: Doesn’t tying ourselves to an immutable [unchanging] moral code cut off all [moral] progress and acquiesce in stagnation. A: Lewis “Let us strip the question of the illegitimate emotional power it derives from the word 'stagnation' with its suggestion of puddles and mantled pools. If water stands too long it stinks. To infer thence that whatever stands long must be unwholesome is to be the victim of metaphor. Space does not stink because it has preserved its three dimensions from the beginning. The square on the hypotenuse has not gone moldy by continuing to equal the sum of the squares on the other two sides. Love is not dishonored by constancy, and when we wash our hands we are seeking stagnation and "putting the clock back," artificially restoring our hands to the status quo in which they began the day and resisting the natural trend of events which would increase their dirtiness steadily from our birth to our death. For the emotive term 'stagnant' let us substitute the descriptive term 'permanent.' Does a permanent moral standard preclude progress? On the contrary, except on the supposition of a changeless standard, progress is impossible. If good is a fixed point, it is at least possible that we should get nearer and nearer to it; but if the terminus is as mobile as the train, how can the train progress towards it? Our ideas of the good may change, but they cannot change either for the better or the worse if there is no absolute and immutable [unchanging] good to which they can recede. We can go on getting a sum more and more nearly right only if the one perfectly right is "stagnant". And yet it will be said, I have just admitted that our ideas of good may improve. How is this to be reconciled with the view that "traditional morality" is a depositum fidei [deposit of revelations] which cannot be deserted? The answer can be understood if we compare a real moral advance with a mere innovation. From the Stoic and Confucian, "Do not do to others what you would not like them to do to you"; to the Christian, "Do as you would be done by" is a real advance. The morality of Nietzsche is a mere innovation. The first is an advance because no one who did not admit the validity of the old maxim could see reason for accepting the new one, and anyone who accepted the old would at once recognize the new as an extension of the same principle. If he rejected it, he would have to reject it as a superfluity, something that went too far, not as something simply heterogeneous [divergent] from his own ideas of value. But the Nietzschean ethic can be accepted only if we are ready to scrap traditional morals as a mere error and then to put ourselves in a position where we can find no ground for any value judgements at all. It is the difference between a man who says to us: "You like your vegetables moderately fresh; why not grow your own and have them perfectly fresh?" and a man who says, "Throw away that loaf and try eating bricks and centipedes instead." (Lewis, ‘The Poison of Subjectivism’).

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Thank you! The artwork was quite helpful in reinforcing Lewis' teaching.

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