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...think if you have too many voices, it tends to reduce the clarity. Both of these men wrote extremely well. Freud won the Goethe Prize for Literature, and of course Lewis is known for his clarity and conciseness; his writings have probably been among the most influential of the 20th century. Now it’s true that Freud did say that, but then he also said “All I did was add a great psychological foundation.” People before him like Feuerbach and Voltaire and many people of the Enlightenment said that this whole concept...
...been invited by many universities to give papers on this, so I began writing maybe at least ten or fifteen years ago. Then I was asked to give the Nobel lectures at Harvard, and then I was asked to give some lectures at Oxford University on Freud and Lewis and this helped crystallize some of my thinking. And then somebody sent a set of my lectures to Simon & Schuster without my knowing it, and they came up to Cambridge and said, “we’d like you to consider writing a book...
...Freud and Lewis were sitting down at a table, what might they both agree on—the biggest area where the two of them would agree philosophically...
...That’s a very interesting question. I think they’d be very courteous to one another—the age difference would probably ensure that. I think they would agree that these questions are indeed the most important questions. Because Freud would insist that if your whole life is based on a false premise, that can only lead to disaster. And Lewis would agree with that...
...There’s a tendency to put science and religion, or atheism and spirituality, in completely opposite camps—but do you think there are more places where Freud and Lewis might have agreed than they thought...