“Notes on the Nature of Reason” is an approximately 1,700 word outline of Lewis’s talk “The Nature of Reason,” which he delivered to the Socratic Club on 15 October, 1945. These previously unpublished notes emphasize Reason’s certainty, its inability to provide its own subjects, and the distinction between Theoretical and Practical Reason.
Clive Staples Lewis, scholar and author, left his mark on the realms of literary criticism, Christian apologetics, and fantasy stories. Lewis is best known for the seven Chronicles of Narnia, his religious writings such as Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters, both of which remain popular today. His work on Milton, A Preface to Paradise Lost, is considered a standard critical work.
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