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the lion, the witch, and the worldview

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The Chronicles of Narnia and Philosophy

the lion, the witch, and the worldview

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Pushing through some mothballed fur coats in a wardrobe in a disused room of an old London house, Lucy and the other Pevensie children found themselves in a strange and wonderful country, populated by creatures unknown in our world. Philosophy, too, can take us into a magical new place with its own peculiar delights and dangers. Here twenty-four philosophers and Narnia fans relate some of the things they have witnessed in the weird world of Narnia and the even weirder world of philosophy. Philosophy, it turns out, can be as addictive as the White Witch's turkish delight, though hopefully not always so frustrating. Under what conditions should we believe a story that runs counter to all our experience? Does might make right or are there objective moral rules? Would Albert Einstein have made any sense of the claim that time can flow at different rates in different worlds? If a boy is turned into a dragon, is the dragon still the same person as the boy? Can salvation be found in many religions or only in one? Do animals -- even the ones that don't talk -- have souls? These puzzles and more are bravely attacked in The Chronicles of Narnia and Philosophy. - Publisher.

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Open Court
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English
Pages
302

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Table of Contents

Part 1 : Farewell to shadowlands : believing, doubting, and knowing.
Aslan's voice : C.S. Lewis and the magic of sound / Stephen H. Webb
Virtue epistemology : why Uncle Andrew couldn't hear the animals speak / Kevin Kinghorn
Trusting Lucy : believing the incredible / Thomas D. Senor
Breaking the spell of skepticism : Puddleglum versus the Green Witch / Steven Lovell
At any rate there's no humbug here : truth and perspective / Bruce R. Reichenbach
Part 2 : The tao in Narnia : morality and the good life.
Worth dying for : Narnian lessons on heroism and altruism / Laura Garcia
Work, vocation, and the good life in Narnia / Devin Brown
The tao of Narnia / Tim Mosteller
Extreme makeover : moral development and the encounter with Aslan / Bill Davis
Is it good to be bad? : immoralism in Narnia / Janice Daurio
Narnia and the moral imagination / Gayne J. Anacker
Beasts, heroes, and monsters : configuring the moral imaginary / Wendy C. Hamblet
No longer a friend : gender in Narnia / Karin Fry
Part 3 : Further up and further in : exploring the deeper nature of reality.
Plato in Narnia / Gareth Matthews
Different worlds, different bodies : personal identity in Narnia / Timothy Cleveland
Why Eustace almost deserved his name : Lewis's critique of modern secularism / Angus Menuge
Time keeps on ticking, or does it? : the significance of time in The chronicles of Narnia / Michael and Adam Peterson
Part 4 : The deepest magic : religion and the transcendent.
Aslan the Terrible : painful encounters with absolute goodness / Erik J. Wielenberg
Worthy of a better God : religious diversity and salvation in The chronicles of Narnia / James F. Sennett
The atonement in Narnia / Charles Taliaferro and Rachel Traughber
The Green Witch and the great debate : freeing Narnia from the spell of the Lewis-Anscombe legend / Victor Reppert
Some dogs go to heaven : Lewis on animal salvation / Gregory Bassham

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Library of Congress
PR6023.E926C5324, PR6023.E926 C5324 2005

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Format
Paperback
Pagination
xvi, 302 p.
Number of pages
302
Dimensions
23 x x centimeters

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Open Library
OL24993310M
Internet Archive
chroniclesofnarn00bass
ISBN 10
0812695887
LCCN
2005015101
OCLC/WorldCat
60557454

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