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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 RUclips 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’).

This doesn’t match my text ??

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

3:15 or *_Progressive!_*

7:40 you are here.

I am enjoying this series but I must say it is having the opposite effect of what I feel its intention is... I feel like it is impossible for man to be the person God wants us to be, and that seems incredibly unfair. Like man has been set an unpassable exam. It makes life seem almost pointless. Try and fail, try and fail.. its very sad. I had hoped Christianity was more than that. This set of works makes Christianity (and this life) look like a chore, a series of unending failures and disappointments to God. I want to be a Christian, but beyond that knowledge, I am completely lost.

So very well done! The artwork really helps reinforce the message. Thank you.

Ive not watched the Narnia film since becoming a believer...so...the ones in her castle were made into statues by their sins(?) and they were brought to life by Aslan in the end? The doodle is simply the best way for any of this to seemingly penetrate my thick skull. Thank God for the technology we have available (though the book is excellent!) x

So well done...thank you.

Absolutely splendid presentation. One of the best in my 40 years. Thank you

Excellent work as always. Thank you @CSLewisDoodle

Excellent job on aligning the illustrations with the audio. Very helpful.

Superb! The exceptional artwork makes it all the more enjoyable - and understandable.

This is one of my more recent discoveries of Lewis' (I hadn't read Christian Reflections until just recently), but I quite love it. It is so wonderfully insightful on how infectious the mindset of evolution is, and how it influences the psychology of everything from consumerism to human destiny, and furthermore, WHY it is so.

Thank you for this video. Accessibility makes a huge difference in wisdom being granted to the population.

This is wonderful work you are doing! Please continue with the wonderful research and presentation. I especially enjoy getting to hear some of Lewis' more obscure works. Please keep it up! God bless.

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Repost: "Voici un truc assez inusité et TRÈS original, soit l'utilisation d'un dessin animé sur le thème d'un essai génial, mais peu connu de CS Lewis, soit The Funeral of a Great Myth. The Funeral of a Great Myth (of Popular Evolution) by C.S. Lewis Doodle ruclips.net/video/NgoEKnuCuJE/видео.html Et ce dessin animé (vidéo 36min) est accompagné de la voix d'un narrateur qui lit l'essai de Lewis dans un anglais... Il faut noter que c’est aussi stimulant sur le plan visuel que sur le plan intellectuel... Et dans l’espace visuel dans lequel l’artiste travail il fait de VRAI prouesses pour ne pas se retrouver dans un cul-de-sac sur le plan graphique et ne pas pouvoir développer/terminer une idée... Tout ça ne s’improvise PAS... Et non, Lewis ne discute pas des preuves de l'évolution, mais examine ce qu'on appel la théorie de l'évolution, mais d'un point de vue particulier de la littérature mythologique. Si c'est très instructif (et c'est un précurseur à mon propre étude dans Fuite de l'Absolu, volume 2) Lewis reste assez terre à terre et discute de Walt Disney ainsi que du romancier de science fiction HG Wells. Lewis expose certains fait historiques fort utiles au sujet de la pensée évolutionniste, c'est-à-dire que l’idéologie évolutionniste était bien en place (et issue du Siècle des Lumières) AVANT que Darwin accouche de cette théorie. De l’avis de Lewis c’est donc la mythologie évolutionniste qui a suscité la théorie... C’est donc un besoin idéologique qui a suscité ce mythe*. Évidemment je devine que ce n’est PAS ce qu’on vous a enseigné à l’université? Hein? Avec son esprit analytique superbe, Lewis dissèque bien les grand thèmes de l’évolution, bien qu’à mon avis Lewis concède un peu trop vite le caractère scientifique de l’évolution en biologie. Mais le débat sur les origines était à un stade embryonnaire à son époque, c’est donc tout à faire pardonnable... Bonne Année! Paul Gosselin St-Augustin, QC" His Bio here: www.amazon.com/Paul-Gosselin/e/B00J1UDNCW?ref_=dbs_p_ebk_r00_abau_000000

Repost: @shuntensatsu11 This was my favorite one you made, so glad you could get it back up!

Reposted comment: @JoshSJoshingWithYa I personally struggle with respecting the myth with all of the social degradation that has occurred as a result of it, but he's right that we must see it as something that deeply resonates with us who hear it. Very interesting video.

Ora et labora.

Thanks for keeping on doing these.

Thank you for the illustrations (and for the correction in the typo in the lyrics - that was a personal blast from the past and, along with a good reminder, was a good memory and made me smile. Again, my thanks). Blessings!

Great essay by Lewis!

Oh, how I wish our media would honestly reflect this. Thank you to this channel for doodling this talk.

Fascinating

Reposted comment @sparkomatic 21:33 This is the transcendental argument.

Reposted comment: @CMVBrielman I’m watching this while my daughter is watching the Bluey episode “Flatpack” which is basically a summation of this exact myth - 13:56.

Excellent

No excuse for making them again... yet here we go again... again.

Incredible work! Lewis' arguments are enriched by your imagery. You've tracked down some obscure references in your research.