Topics: Should Christians be socialists, and was C.S. Lewis a socialist? // Mere Christianity‘s themes // Liberal-libertarian principles — free-market economics and property rights, competence to run your own life, self-responsibility, self-respect and dignity for all, universalism and equal liberty for all, self-ownership — and Lewis’s views on them // An unresolved tension in Lewis’s thinking.

Transcription: Available at my thinkspot page.

Sources:

• Kian Hudson, “Politics According to C.S. Lewis,” Law and Liberty, 2016.
• C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, Collier/Macmillan, 1943, 1945, 1952.
• Peter Wehner, “The Political Magic of C. S. Lewis,” The New York Times, Sept. 24, 2016.
• David Theroux, “C. S. Lewis on Mere Liberty and the Evils of Statism,” Independent Institute, 2010.
• David Urban, “Was C.S. Lewis a Libertarian?” Foundation for Economic Education, 2017.

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