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In defense of C.S. Lewis's analysis of God's goodness

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  1. A well-known exception to this indifference is Elizabeth Anscombe's attack on Lewis's argument that materialism is self-defeating. G.E.M. Anscombe, ‘A Reply to Mr. C.S. Lewis's Argument that “Naturalism” is Self-Refuting’, inThe Collected Philosophical Papers of G.E.M. Anscombe, Vol. II:Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Mind (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1981), pp. 224–232. Though not as well-known as Anscombe's essay, the following constitute some of the literature on Lewis that approaches his thought from a philosophical perspective: Micheal D. Aeschliman,The Restitution of Man: C.S. Lewis and the Case Against Scientism (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1983); Robert L. Armstrong, ‘Friendship’,Journal of Value Inquiry 19 (1985), pp. 211–216; Iréne Fernandez, ‘Un rationalisme chrétiene: Le cas de C.S. Lewis’,Revue Philosophique de la France et de l'Etranger 178 (1988), pp. 3–17; Robert Holyer, ‘The Argument From Desire’,Faith and Philosophy 5 (1988), pp. 61–71; Kimberly A. Kiamie, ‘Neurophilosophy and the Logic-Causation Argument’,Dialogue 32 (1990), pp. 39–42; Jean-Yves Lacoste, ‘Anges et hobbits: le sens des mondes possibles’,Freiburger Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Theologie 43 (1989), pp. 483–505; James Patrik,The Magdalen Metaphysicals: Idealism and Orthodoxy at Oxford, 1901–1945 (Macon: Mercer University Press, 1985); Richard L. Purtill,C.S. Lewis's Case for the Christian Faith (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1981); Frank P. Riga, ‘Augustinian Pride and the Work of C.S. Lewis’,Augustinian Studies 16 (1985), pp. 129–136; M.C. Rose, ‘The Christian Platonism of Lewis, Tolkien and Williams’, inNeoplatonism and Christian Thought, ed. by D.J. O'Meara (Norfolk: SUNY Press, 1982), pp. 203–212; Augustine Shutte, ‘The Refutation of Determinism’,Philosophy 59 (1984), pp. 481–490; J.J.C. Smart, ‘Comment: The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment’,Res Judicatae 6 (1954), pp. 368–71; Olaf Tollefsen, ‘C.S. Lewis on Evaluative Judgments of Literature’,Modern Schoolman 56 (1979), pp. 356–363; and Duff Watkins, ‘The Screwtape Letters and Process Theism’,Process Studies 8 (1978), pp. 114–118.

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  3. All quotations of Plato are taken fromThe Collected Dialogues of Plato, edited by Edith Hamilton and Huntington Cairns (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1963).

  4. See also Lewis's account of his own backsliding atPP, pp. 106–107.

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Petrik, J.M. In defense of C.S. Lewis's analysis of God's goodness. Int J Philos Relig 36, 45–56 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01314200

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