Either we are rational spirit obliged for ever to obey the absolute values of the Tao, or else we are mere nature to be kneaded and cut into new shapes for the pleasures of masters who must, by hypothesis, have to motive but their own ‘natural’ impulses. Only the Tao provides a common human law [...]
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The law of action
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The defence against chance
Posted in C.S. Lewis on 31, May, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
He had always disliked the people who encored a favourite air in the opera—’That just spoils it’ had been his comment. But this now appeared to him as a principle of far wider application and deeper moment. This itch to have things over again, as if life were a film that could be unrolled twice [...]
Like a broken record…
Posted in C.S. Lewis, Perelandra on 18, December, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
He had always disliked the people who encored a favourite air in the opera-”That just spoils it” had been his comment. But this now appeared to him as a principle of far wider application and deeper moment. This itch to have things over again, as if life were a film that could be unrolled twice [...]
You’ve no authori-ti…
Posted in C.S. Lewis on 22, May, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
The Innovator attacks the traditional values (the Tao) in defence of what he at first supposes to be (in some special sense) ‘rational’ or ‘biological’ values. But as we have seen, all the values which he uses in attacking the Tao, and even claims to be substituting for it, are themselves derived from the Tao. [...]
The Condition…
Posted in C.S. Lewis on 8, April, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
…if man chooses to treat himself as raw material, raw material he will be: not raw material to be manipulated, as he fondly imagined, by himself, but by mere appetite, that is, mere Nature, in the person of his dehumanized Conditioners. C.S. Lewis
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