The contribution thinking makes to education is fairly clear. But what contribution does feeling or emotion make not just to education, but to our societies, and to our everyday lives? Relatedly, what is it to feel rightly?
C.S. Lewis addresses these questions squarely in The Abolition of Man. Feeling–and its contribution to our lives–is to be judged by the standard of objective moral truth, he argues. Where is such moral truth to be found? Following the tradition of natural law thinking, Lewis sketches how such objective value is to be found in what is perhaps a most unexpected place: our ordinary, everyday practical thinking. We abandon such objective value, he argues, at the risk of abandoning our own humanity.
We invite all undergraduates and graduate students to join us for dinner and discussion on the evening of Saturday, January 5th.
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