FACT OF THE DAY: Lewis gave the annual Commemoration Oration at King’s College today (12/14) in 1944. His topic was “The Inner Ring.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “A thing may be morally neutral and yet the desire for that thing may be dangerous.” The Inner Ring (Talk given on 12/14/1944) – – …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: 2/25
FACT OF THE DAY: The 2nd Riddell Memorial Lecture entitled “The Way” by Lewis was given today (2/25) in 1943. It became part of The Abolition of Man. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of imagining a new primary colour.” The Way (First …
Fact / Quote / Quiz: February 25th
FACT OF THE DAY:
The 2nd Riddell Memorial Lecture entitled “The Way” by Lewis was given today (2/25) in 1943. It became part of The Abolition of Man.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of imagining a new primary colour.”
The Way
(First a lecture from 2/25/1943 from the eventual The Abolition of Man)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
When the final series of broadcast talks began this month in 1944 something different happen to them; what was it?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: December 14th
FACT OF THE DAY:
Lewis gave the annual Commemoration Oration at King’s College today (12/14) in 1944. His topic was “The Inner Ring.”
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“A thing may be morally neutral and yet the desire for that thing may be dangerous.”
The Inner Ring
(Talk given on 12/14/1944)
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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
What book was first published this month after Lewis’s death that dealt with topics from his professional career?
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QUOTE: September 27, 2013
“Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.”
Social Morality
(Broadcast on BBC on 9/27/1942; Chapter two from Book Three, Christian Behaviour in Mere Christianity)