C. S. Lewis

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Clive Staples Lewis (1898–1963), Belfast-born scholar of medieval literature, novelist (The Chronicles of Narnia), and the most widely read Christian apologist of the twentieth century. Mere Christianity (1952) contains the Argument from Desire and a version of the moral argument, and the "liar, lunatic, or Lord" trilemma, which is a False Dilemma with a fourth option (legend) left out.

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Argument from Degrees of Perfection

Plato's Form of the Good stands behind it; C. S. Lewis and Peter Kreeft give popular versions in which our sense that some things are better than others implies a standard of perfect goodness.

Argument from Desire

The argument is most associated with C. S. Lewis (Mere Christianity, 1952): "If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."

Argument from Reason

C. S. Lewis's argument (Miracles, 1947, ch. 3), revived by Victor Reppert (C. S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea, 2003), with ancestors in Arthur Balfour and J. B. S. Haldane: "If my mental processes are determined wholly by the motions of atoms in…

Lewis's Trilemma

C. S. Lewis's argument (Mere Christianity, 1952, Book II, ch. 3), popularised as "Liar, Lunatic or Lord" by Josh McDowell:

Elizabeth Anscombe

G. E. M. Anscombe (1919–2001) was a British analytic philosopher, a student and literary executor of Ludwig Wittgenstein, and a devout Catholic. Intention (1957) founded the modern philosophy of action, and "Modern Moral Philosophy" (1958)…

Victor Reppert

Victor Reppert (born 1953) is an American philosopher whose C. S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea (2003) revived and formalised C. S. Lewis's Argument from Reason, the claim that naturalism undermines the rationality of the very reasoning used to d…