Peter Kreeft - Lost in the Cosmos (1/7)

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Peter Kreeft, a Professor of Philosophy at Boston College, lectures on Walker Percy's "Lost in the Cosmos" and CS Lewis' "The Abolition of Man".
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[vivascargill]

@Craigmin yes but I never really was moved by C.S. Lewis and I don't know why--but Pascal (as you say) speaks very deeply to me

[vivascargill]

@Craigmin yeah it puzzles me too

[Craigmin]

"I am a unreconstructed RED and an eccentric Roman Catholic (kind of like Graham Greene) I stand with Marx Lenin Stalin..." -vivascargill

Huh!?! -.-

[Craigmin]

@vivascargill Have you read 'The Screwtape Letters'?

[Craigmin]

@prtz113 Compare with the view count for a pro-Richard Dawkins video, lol.

[Misscommentator]

Awesome series. I agree prtz it should be viewed more. I also agree with WarThemed that Lewis was/is underappreciated. I think it's because even his books that are satirical still very directly display the issue at hand. He's not good at being what Kreeft calls a "spy" that "tricks" the reader into becoming interested. The reader already knows what the work is about and thus, perhaps, loses interest quickly or judges the book by its cover.

[prtz113]

The most depressing thing about this set of videos is that it has only being viewed 685 times so far. Otherwise it reminds the film "It's a mad mad mad mad world"

[vivascargill]

@WarThemedRevolution perhaps I have read Lewis and found him--well sentimental is not the right word--but Pascal makes me sit up! My sense is that Lewis knew this--until he met Joy he. Pascal and Kiergegaard (both think favorites of Percy) really hit home--Lewis was a great scholar--and I have read his book on wyatt surrey etc with pleasure but Pascal keeps me awake at night--but I may be missing something _I'll try him again (Can you imagine Lewis writing "The Last Phil Donahue Show""?

[WarThemedRevolution]

@vivascargill Van Gogh died broke, and Edgar Alan Poe was underappreciated until well after his death. You are right to say that Lewis did not have the impact of men like Pascal, but perhaps he -should- have. Maybe one day people will realize just how brilliant the man really was. I think he is as underappreciated today as Van Gogh was in his time.

[vivascargill]

I come from the very hard left--I remain there but I think that Walker Percy has always been a writer who keeps me from becoming utterly unreflective. I do take issue about Prof Kreeft's equation of Percy with Lewis. Lewis and the inklings has never had the impact that Kiergegaard or Pascal or Percy. Chesterton must be challenged but thaqt is a long story--well done if you will accept kudos from an unreconstructed Red