Getting back to a limited republic would do much to reinstate freedom and true equality.
@honorablevessel8 күн бұрын
Wow! That song at the end was POWERFUL!!!
@sethapex96709 күн бұрын
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
@CSLewisDoodle9 күн бұрын
I think Lewis replies to that in 'The abolition of Man": "Is the value of a systematization [a life] to be judged by the presence of satisfactions or the absence of dissatisfactions? The extreme case is that of the dead man in whom satisfactions and dissatisfactions (on the modern view) both equal zero, as against the successful traitor who can still eat, drink, sleep, scratch, and copulate, even if he cannot have friendship or love or self-respect...Dr. Richards’s system gives no support to his (and our) actual preference for civil life over savage and human over animal - or even for life over death."
@matthewpilgrim961011 күн бұрын
Incredible essay, one of Lewis' best. Thank you for uploading!
@tapeexperiments11 күн бұрын
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?
@CSLewisDoodle11 күн бұрын
The link is in the video description, the book is called 'Mere Christianity'.
@holdenstrausser11 күн бұрын
Great video
@shawnholbrook727812 күн бұрын
Thanks. I'm re-reading Mere Christianity this week.
@CSLewisDoodle5 күн бұрын
The doodle version might help : kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h9N4i7yZ1auoloE.html
@tavarnionniennandur529912 күн бұрын
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.
@DerekJFiedler12 күн бұрын
I'm going to need to rewatch this... Like 5 times 😅 The footnotes in the description are gold
@christophercarlson869112 күн бұрын
Love your work.
@benjaminschaefer164612 күн бұрын
Lovely. This is with a different voice than the original glad these ideas are still being put out there
@dsc417812 күн бұрын
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.
@adammorrell955312 күн бұрын
A perfect doodle for the times
@rebbrown714012 күн бұрын
Well done and well said!
@salli458812 күн бұрын
Still as timely as the day it was written. Thanks for your excellent work, as usual.
@JaminEMetcalf12 күн бұрын
Such an important message for our time!
@hellie_el12 күн бұрын
❤❤❤❤❤ thank you
@abcdtypes911412 күн бұрын
Wishing well, Wow that was medical! Wanting your best, Healthier, Kinder, Abler, Braver
@samj4u13 күн бұрын
A Timely message.
@dannykraeger160213 күн бұрын
I love these so much please keep up the good work
@drummersagainstitk13 күн бұрын
This is ONE OF THE BEST channels on youtube. Thank you.
@donovanroberts860713 күн бұрын
Wow, Great wisdom.
@dansorrell936613 күн бұрын
I have been trying to find a way to make this point for the last few months. Thank you for illustrating it so well.
@Seority13 күн бұрын
Awesome vid!
@AdrianCruz_13 күн бұрын
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
@TheChroNikler49813 күн бұрын
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.
@CSLewisDoodle13 күн бұрын
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
@jeffreyportis938824 күн бұрын
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.
@CSLewisDoodle24 күн бұрын
Lewis talks more about this point in detail in ‘The Poison of Subjectivism’ (see comments on this page for starter), and ‘The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment’. Can you get a copy of the former? “On the old view the problem of fixing the right sentence [in court] was a moral problem. Accordingly, the judge who did it was a person trained in jurisprudence; trained, that is, in a science which deals with rights and duties, and which, in origin at least, was consciously accepting guidance from the Law of Nature [The universal Moral Law], and from Scripture. We must admit that in the actual penal code of most countries at most times these high originals were so much modified by local custom, class interests, and utilitarian concessions, as to be very imperfectly recognisable. But the code was never in principle, and not always in fact, beyond the control of the conscience of the society. And when (say, in eighteenth-century England) actual punishments conflicted too violently with the moral sense of the community, juries refused to convict and reform was finally brought about. This was possible because, so long as we are thinking in terms of Desert, the propriety of the penal code, being a moral question, is a question on which every man has the right to an opinion, not because he follows this or that profession, but because he is simply a man, a rational animal enjoying the Natural Light. But all this is changed when we drop the concept of Desert...” (Doodled here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rLCJiJODtbzGhpc.html More on the great problem with the "utilitarian concessions" in the sequel - On Punishment - A reply - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mNecqqqk0NPYoYE.html
@sonofode90225 күн бұрын
32:01"...their activities in the long run always directed against their freedom" Those who offer new ethical morality.
@tutsyb2628 күн бұрын
Wow I have chills!!!! Im about to begin the book
@pamelarenee8314Ай бұрын
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
@rubphilosopher9307Ай бұрын
Awesome thanks this drawing adds so much to this teaching great job
@tessac5067Ай бұрын
Love these! Great work!
@hoppybirdy6967Ай бұрын
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.
@salli4588Ай бұрын
Excellent as usual. Thank you.
@user-hf1qu2yf1jАй бұрын
How is it possible for one person to be so insightful 😭❤️ C S Lewis is amazing! Thanks for the video!! On point as always
@davidkazira6060Ай бұрын
Woohoo. A doodle vid. I long doe these. Thanks my guy.
@makethisgowhooshАй бұрын
Few things make me perk up like seeing a new CSLewisDoodle! These are awesome!
@dsc4178Ай бұрын
Tough to follow (I was called away again and again while watching) but very well done.
@kejewaАй бұрын
Thank you for what you do, CSLewisDoodle. My family is always happy when you release a new one of these videos.
@caprimercenary2522Ай бұрын
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.
@mlauntubeАй бұрын
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.
@jvt_redbaronspeaks4831Ай бұрын
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.
@drummersagainstitkАй бұрын
Your channel is one of the BEST because it simplifies the most difficult ideas. Thank you for bringing C.S. LEWIS to the masses.
@oliviastratton2169Ай бұрын
Yay! New CS Lewis reading + art! Love these!
@CSLewisDoodleАй бұрын
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’).
@CSLewisDoodleАй бұрын
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’).
@Duane422Ай бұрын
This doesn’t match my text ??
@CSLewisDoodleАй бұрын
These broadcasts were later turned by Lewis into a book with more detail (and quite different examples).
@user-tt1nz5ov1nАй бұрын
Thank you! The artwork was quite helpful in reinforcing Lewis' teaching.