Theism and Humanism

The Book That Influenced C. S. Lewis

Paperback | 1 October 2000 | Edition Number 2

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Second Edition Foreword	p. 5
1915 Preface	p. 9
Introductory	p. 11
Metaphysics and the 'Plain Man'	p. 13
Inevitable Beliefs and 'Common Sense'	p. 18
The Character of the Theism To Be Established	p. 19
What the Argument Is Not	p. 22
An Argument to Design	p. 25
Design and Selection	p. 27
Argument from Values	p. 34
Aesthetic and Theism	p. 39
Aesthetic Described	p. 41
Whence Comes It?	p. 42
Values and the Higher Emotions	p. 44
Natural Beauty	p. 51
Aesthetic of History	p. 53
Ethics and Theism	p. 59
Ethics Described	p. 62
Egoism, Altruism and Selection	p. 63
Selection and the Higher Morality	p. 67
Same Subject Matter Continued	p. 72
Theism and the Collision of Ends	p. 74
Intellectual Values	p. 79
Retrospect	p. 81
Reason and Causation	p. 81
Leslie Stephen and Locke's Aphorism	p. 82
Reason and Empirical Agnosticism	p. 87
Perception, Common Sense and Science	p. 89
Common Sense and the External World	p. 91
Science and the External World	p. 93
Primary and Secondary Qualities	p. 94
Perception as a Causal Series	p. 96
Perception as a Cognitive Act	p. 98
An Irresistible Assumption	p. 100
Probability, Calculable and Intuitive	p. 103
Mathematicians and Probability	p. 105
Calculable Probability	p. 106
Intuitive Probability	p. 111
Uniformity and Causation	p. 113
Habit, Expectation, Induction	p. 115
Regularity, Causation	p. 116
The Principle of Negligibility	p. 118
Causation and Foreknowledge	p. 121
Tendencies of Scientific Belief	p. 127
Beliefs that We Are Inclined to Hold	p. 129
Atomism. Beliefs of Conservation	p. 130
Epilogue	p. 138
Summary and Conclusion	p. 141
Humanism and Theism	p. 143
The Doctrine of Congruity	p. 143
Is this Systematic Philosophy?	p. 149
Conclusion	p. 152
A Distinctively Christian Setting	p. 155
An Epilogue on the Incarnation	p. 155
Our Significance in the Cosmic Drama	p. 156
Our Ethical Needs	p. 159
Our Material Bodies	p. 160
Our Difficulties with Evil	p. 161
A Catechism for Naturalism	p. 163
The Evolution of Belief	p. 165
The Discrepancy Between Religion and Science	p. 174
Changes from the 1915 Text	p. 179
Letters from C. S. Lewis to Sheldon Vanauken	p. 181
December 14, 1950	p. 182
December 23, 1950	p. 183
April 17, 1951	p. 185
Notes	p. 187
Glossary	p. 193
Index	p. 199
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