Buretmeché here and welcome to the edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast.

Now like Play-Doh, CS Lewis, believed the human soul was made up of three parts.

The head, which is the rational, reason-driven part of you, the belly, which is your appetites

and base instincts, and the chest, the seat of virtue-seeking sentiments and well-tuned

emotions.

In order for your head to make your decisions, particularly the decision to live a virtuous

life, rather than your decisions being driven by your belly, the head needs the aid of the

chest of right feeling.

A few months ago, we had Michael Ward on the show, to talk about why CS Lewis felt that

modern life was making men without chest.

Today, I talked to a guest who can shed some light on what Lewis thought was needed to

build that chest back up.

His name is Lewis Marcos, and he's a professor of English, as well as the lecture of the great

courses course, The Life and Riding of CS Lewis.

At the start of our conversation, Lou gives us some background on Lewis' life, including

his conversion to Christianity, and how the nature of that conversion influences thinking

on how to pursue virtue more broadly.

We then talk about Lewis' philosophical argument for there being a universal moral order,

and why the chest is so vital for staying grounded in it.

We spend the rest of our discussion, unpacking the three ways Lewis believed the chest

could be educated.

Reading stories and myths, rejecting chronological snobbery to learn from the past and developing

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