Justin Johnson Intro to Philosophy MW 11:30 December 10, 2018 C.S. Lewis Term Paper Born on November 29, 1898, in Belfast, Ireland, C.S. Lewis went on to teach at Oxford university and become a renowned author, essayist, and Christian apologist writer, using logic and philosophy to support the tenets of his faith. Throughout his life, he retained strong roots to Ireland. His love for his home country even made him seek out the company of Irish and took an active interest in Celtic literature and myths. He was a keen admirer of the works of W.B. Yeats, at a time when he was relatively unknown in England. Lewis has also written more than 30 books which have been translated into more than 30 languages and have sold millions of copies. The most well-known and what has made him so famous beingThe Chronicles of Narnia, which have been popularized on stage, radio, and cinema screens big and small. Clive Staples Lewis was born in Belfast, Ireland, on November 29, 1898 into a Protestant Ulster family. His father was Albert James Lewis (1863-1929), a solicitor whose father Richard had come to Ireland from Wales during the mid-19th century. His mother was Florence Augusta Lewis (1862-1908), also known as Flora, the daughter of a Church of Ireland priest, and great
granddaughter of both Bishop Hugh Hamilton and John Staples. Lewis also had an elder brother, Warren Hamilton Lewis (known as “Warnie”). When Lewis was about four years old, his dog Jacksie was killed by a car, and he announced that his name was now Jacksie in honor of him. At first, he would answer to no other name, but eventually accepted Jack, the name by which he was known to friends and family for the rest of his life. When he was seven, his family moved into “Little Lea”, the family home of his childhood, in the Strandtown area of East Belfast. As a boy, Lewis was fascinated with anthropomorphic animals, he fell in love with Beatrix Potter’s stories and often wrote and illustrated his own animal stories. He and his brother Warnie created the world ofBoxen, inhabited and ran by animals. Lewis loved to read any chance he got, so luckily for him his father’s house was filled with books, and he felt that finding a book to read was as easy as walking into a field and “finding a new blade of grass”. Lewis was schooled by private tutors until the age of 9, when his mother died in 1908 from cancer. After his mother’s death, Lewis’ father then sent him to live and study at Wynyard School in Watford outside of London, England. Lewis’ brother had enrolled there three years prior. Very little learning actually occurred for Lewis at this school as it was overseen by a brutal authoritarian headmaster who was drifting into insanity. The school was eventually closed not long afterwards due to a lack of students and Lewis then went on to attend Campbell College in the east of Belfast about a mile from his home, but left after only a few months due to
respiratory problems. Due to his health issues, Lewis was then sent back to England to the
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