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Thinking Fellows

The Abolition of Man

Thinking Fellows

1517 Podcasts

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8869 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The Thinking Fellows conclude their reading of The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis. This work ends with a brutal prognosis of society and the loss of objective truth. The Fellows note the prophetic realities of Lewis' writing. The episode ends with a hint at the following episode highlighting a Christian response through vocation.

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0:21.5

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1:13.1

Okay, we are on our third and final episode covering C.S. Lewis and his work,

1:21.1

the abolition of man.

1:23.7

This is a, as we've been going through, a more philosophical work from Lewis.

1:28.3

You know, we have covered the apologetic, sort of Christian doctrine side.

1:34.3

Then we did literary, and that's also a lot of Christian theology we pointed out in the Chronicles of Narnia.

1:41.3

Now this is social commentary, commentary on the state of education,

1:47.5

and sort of a philosophical treatise from him. All in three, you know, relatively short lectures.

1:55.6

I'm not sure how long it would take to speak this book. I think each one's like 45 minutes. Okay. Yeah. So, so it's not

2:04.2

crazy long. And we're in the final section, which is the title of the book, the namesake,

2:11.6

which is the abolition of man. And it's essentially the conclusion from the setup,

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