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Tosh.0 Meets CS Lewis
Religio Political Talk (RPT) ^ | 3-6-2011 | Papa Giorgio

Posted on 03/06/2011 1:00:20 PM PST by SeanG200

How would you rewrite, or should I say, add to CS Lewis’ examples after seeing this video?

[Tosh.0 Video]

These two men seem to be referring to not only the law as in the penal code/system… but they resolved this act with reference to some “fair standard” that is above the written law of man. IMHO that is.

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"EVERY ONE HAS HEARD people quarreling. Sometimes it sounds funny and sometimes it sounds merely unpleasant; but however it sounds, I believe we can learn something very important from listening to the kinds of things they say. They say things like this: “How’d you like it if anyone did the same to you?”–‘That’s my seat, I was there first”–”Leave him alone, he isn’t doing you any harm”–”Why should you shove in first?”–”Give me a bit of your orange, I gave you a bit of mine”–”Come on, you promised.” People say things like that every day, educated people as well as uneducated, and children as well as grown-ups."

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TOPICS: Books/Literature; Humor; Religion
KEYWORDS: christianity; cslewis; ethics; tosh0

1 posted on 03/06/2011 1:00:22 PM PST by SeanG200
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To: SeanG200
Lewis's examples were to suggest the existence of universal, agreed upon standards of morality, and that when two people came into conflict it was not over the existence of the rules, but in who had actually violated them.

I agree whole heartedly with Lewis, and I think had he lived another decade he would have observed a counterculture that also recognizes the same rules and standards, but finds it fashionable to flaunt and defy them.

2 posted on 03/06/2011 1:07:22 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Joe 6-pack

I posted a quote in my blog post (linked at the top) some input from a skeptical philosopher, he ends the small section from his book like this:

“[....] Moral statements, then, cannot be mere matters of taste and opinion. They essentially involve an appeal to principles that transcend both the wishes of any one individual, and the customs of any one culture or society. That there are such principles, and that we cannot really escape from them, are points Lewis successfully illuminates. It thus seems very plausible to suppose that when our moral statements appeal to these principles in an appropriate and rational manner, they deserve to be called truths.”


3 posted on 03/06/2011 1:24:24 PM PST by SeanG200
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To: SeanG200
The TOSH.0 allusion is lost on me.
4 posted on 03/06/2011 1:33:21 PM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: Joe 6-pack
I agree whole heartedly with Lewis, and I think had he lived another decade . . .

Lewis was interviewed some time in the early sixties, and said, "I look forward to the next ten years with the greatest trepidation."

God was merciful, and prevented him from having to go through it, taking him out of the mess on November 22, 1963, just before the madness really geared up.

5 posted on 03/06/2011 1:46:45 PM PST by Dunstan McShane
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