Lewis took logic very seriously as a primary means of securing truth and avoiding falsehood. He understood the pursuit of truth to require devotion to logic as well, and hence to the following out of the consequences of truths discovered. This is a very characteristic statement for Lewis. And from that point of view the very idea of something being imperfect, of its not being what it ought to be, has certain consequences. ( Mere Christianity, p. He says to the potential objector: I am not concerned at present with blame I am trying to find out the truth. There he had pointed out that human beings constantly fail to behave as they expect others to behave. In his third BBC lecture under the heading, The Case for Christianity, later published in Mere Christianity, he responds to those who might think he had been too hard on human beings in his previous lecture. His confidence in this respect did not make him arrogant and close-minded, but was, to the contrary, the foundation of his remarkable humility and openness. Lewis was devoted to the pursuit of truth, and was sure he had captured or been given a great deal of it. Single Issues of The Independent Review. Podcast: Independent Outlook / Conversations.International Economics and Development.
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