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C. S. Lewis was concerned about an aspect of the problem of evil he called subjectivism: the tendency of one’s perspective to move towards self-referentialism and utilitarianism. In C. S. Lewis and a Problem of Evil, Jerry Root provides a holistic reading of Lewis by walking the reader through all of Lewis’ published work as he argues Lewis’ case against subjectivism. Root also reveals that Lewis...

understand the truth of that object in relation to its function, the purpose or ends to which it serves. This is true of material objects, objects of thought, and even the words used to describe them. Third, Lewis believed that an understanding of the truth of an object is more fully grasped when one possesses the skill to use the object for its intended purposes. The person who possesses the skill of horsemanship will have an understanding of horses different than the person who can merely distinguish
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