Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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This is an excerpt from a lecture in a series introducing C.S. Lewis as the defender of freedom and human dignity.

Lewis, like his friend J.R.R. Tolkien, stood in heroic opposition to contemporary establishment views which denied the Biblical view that we share a common human nature. It is precisely those tribalistic views which lead to the atrocities and evils of the 20th century.

00:00 The Existential Struggle: Hegel and the State
00:25 The Loss of a Common Human Nature
00:54 Darwinism vs. the Christian View of Persons (Imago Dei)
01:31 From Persons to Herd Animals: The Vocabulary of Dehumanization
01:47 C.S. Lewis as the Defender of the Individual Soul
02:05 C.S. Lewis vs. B.F. Skinner: Freedom and Virtue
02:35 Scientific Management vs. the Purpose of Education

Full Lecture: youtu.be/FqhpAoAwtvw

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