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Miracles

Summary

C.S. Lewis's philosophical defense of the possibility of miracles, arguing against naturalism by showing that naturalism is self-undermining when applied to human reasoning itself.

Core Contribution

The 'cardinal difficulty of naturalism': if all mental events are determined by non-rational physical causes, then the reasoning by which one concludes naturalism is itself untrustworthy — a key anti-reductionist argument.

Key Spikes & Highlights

  • naturalism self-refutation
  • supernaturalism
  • miracles and history
  • rationality and materialism

Historical Influences

G.K. Chesterton George MacDonald Augustine of Hippo

Intellectual Lineage

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Allied Works

Mere Christianity by C.S. LewisThe Abolition of Man by C.S. LewisOrthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton

Contemporaries & Peers

The Problem of Pain by C.S. LewisMere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

Minds Influenced

Alvin Plantinga N.T. Wright contemporary Christian apologetics

Intellectual Posterity

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