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Pints with Jack: The C.S. Lewis Podcast

S9E15 – Abolition – Ch. 2, Pt. 2 ("Instincts and the Tao")

Pints with Jack: The C.S. Lewis Podcast

David Bates, Matt Bush, and Andrew Lazo

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9671 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Can we build a system of values based on Impulses?

[Show Notes]

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0:00.0

The innovator is more likely to give up the quest for a rational core and to hunt for some other ground even more basic and realistic.

0:11.0

This he will probably feel he has found in instinct.

0:15.0

It looks as if an ethics based on instinct will give the innovator all he wants and nothing that he does not want.

0:24.0

This is Pints with Jack, season 9, episode 15.

0:29.7

The Abolition of Man, Chapter 2, The Dow.

0:34.3

Part 2, Instincts and the Dow.

0:38.6

Have you been looking, everywhere searching for a place where you belong,

0:44.2

away from the masses among clinking glasses where the hearth fire is on,

0:49.9

let the laughter welcome you in that eagle and child in.

0:55.0

There's room at this table to take a seat and tuck right in.

1:00.0

Pints with Jack.

1:03.0

Pints with Jack.

1:09.0

Welcome friends to Pints with Jack.

1:11.9

We are currently in the middle of the abolition of man.

1:15.1

And last month we read through Chapter 1, which was Men Without Chess.

1:19.6

And last week we started Chapter 2, the Tao, which we will be wrapping up next week.

1:26.3

And this week, I am just quite excited.

1:28.5

Just you guys, this topic here, we're really getting into the meat of it.

1:32.1

I like it.

1:32.7

I told the guys ahead of time that I'm excited for this chapter because I understood it,

1:37.4

which is saying something.

1:39.6

And so this is going to be a fun one.

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