C.S. Lewis on Higher Education: The Pedagogy of Pleasure
Ebook
Why pursue a university education? Some people answer in terms of the purpose of getting a good job. Others respond in terms of the aim of earning more money. Still others answer in terms of the goal of promoting social justice. Drawing on C. S. Lewis's belief that the purpose of life is the experience of perfect happiness, Stewart Goetz explains Lewis's simple but overlooked view that a person should pursue a university education for the pleasure that comes from higher-level intellectual activity. Goetz not only sharpens our understanding of Lewis's life and work in higher education, but also leads us to question why we attend, study, teach, or research at a university.
Explores C. S. Lewis's views of the purpose of higher education and his distinctive answer: to experience pleasure.
Presents C.S. Lewis's often overlooked views of the purpose of higher education
Examines Lewis's general view of pleasure in light of his Christian beliefs
Considers practical issues concerning the implementation of Lewis's thought
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Why Higher Education?
1. The Intrinsic Goodness of Pleasure
2. The Pleasure of Higher Education
3. Higher Education and Being a Christian
4. Higher Education and Naturalism
5. Lewis and Higher Education Today
6. What Do I Think?
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Very few Lewis scholars capture the richness of Lewis's thought in the way Owen Barfield described it: “somehow what he thought about everything was secretly present in what he said about anything.” In his provocative and illuminating treatment of Lewis's view of higher education, Goetz has done exactly that.
Thoughtful and thought-provoking. Stewart Goetz provides an important contribution both to Lewis scholarship and to the wider conversation about the purpose and value of education.
Stewart Goetz has emerged as a leading Lewis scholar, particularly with respect to Lewis's philosophical writing. In this book he makes a convincing case that Lewis saw the fundamental purpose of higher education to be the pleasure and happiness it brings. Lovers of Lewis will naturally find this book to be a delight!
- Title: C.S. Lewis on Higher Education: The Pedagogy of Pleasure
- Author: Stewart Goetz
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
- Print Publication Date: 2023
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781350355149, 9781350355118, 1350355119, 1350355143
- Resource ID: LLS:9781350355149
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-04-08T22:18:18Z
Stewart Goetz is the Ross Frederick Wicks Distinguished Professor in Philosophy and Religion at Ursinus College, USA. He is the Series Editor of Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy of Religion.