Tyler Hurst

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Strange as it may seem, these thoughts on the nature of Platonic myth, metaphor, and the symbolic (or sacramental or iconic) nature of the cosmos form the background we need in order to understand Lewis’s rejoinder to the objection stated above that because the medieval model is not true it is now worthless. Indeed, even modern science, he argues, is compatible with the great model precisely because a new kind of metaphorical element has reentered contemporary philosophy of science’s interest in what is called “modeling” and “paradigms.” Lewis responded to his own objection—that Christianity ...more
The Medieval Mind of C. S. Lewis: How Great Books Shaped a Great Mind
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