Was C.S. Lewis a Rational Determinist?

Q3 Arts and Humanities Journal of Inklings Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI:10.3366/ink.2022.0155
R. Davis
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In his recently published book C. S. Lewis (Wiley-Blackwell, 2018), Stewart Goetz argues that C.S. Lewis endorsed a form of rational determinism, according to which we are causally determined to draw the conclusions we do. Our inferences are not within our control; they happen to us whether we like it or not. If Goetz is right, then incredibly we must say that reasoning is not something Lewis ever did. I shall attempt to show that (taken in context) the texts to which Goetz appeals fail to support his thesis. In fact, upon closer analysis, they indicate precisely the opposite: Lewis was no rational determinist.
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C.S.刘易斯是理性决定论者吗?
斯图尔特·格茨在他最近出版的书《C.S.刘易斯》(Wiley-Blackwell, 2018)中认为,C.S.刘易斯支持一种形式的理性决定论,根据这种决定论,我们是被因果决定的,从而得出我们所做的结论。我们的推论不受我们的控制;不管我们喜欢与否,它们都会发生在我们身上。如果Goetz是对的,那么令人难以置信的是,我们必须说刘易斯从来没有做过推理。我将试图表明(在上下文中)Goetz所诉诸的文本不能支持他的论点。事实上,经过仔细分析,它们恰恰表明了相反的情况:刘易斯不是理性决定论者。
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Journal of Inklings Studies Arts and Humanities-Literature and Literary Theory
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