Surprised by Joy

Lewis, C. S. (1955). Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life.

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Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1955

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• Chronological Snobbery
  • C. S. Lewis, who named the pattern (crediting his friend Owen Barfield)

    This sourceLewis's own naming of his 'chronological snobbery' and his credit to Owen Barfield for demolishing it (Surprised by Joy, ch. 13). The memoir in which Lewis uses 'chronological snobbery' as his own label for the attitude. Lewis's statement that Barfield's counterattacks 'made short work of' his chronological snobbery. Lewis's refutation-versus-fashion test: whether a discarded view was ever refuted, by whom, where and how conclusively, or merely died away as fashions do.

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• Genetic Fallacy
  • . Temporal origins: Chronological Snobbery treats a belief’s period as credit or discredit

    This sourceLewis defines chronological snobbery in one direction only - whatever has gone out of date is on that account discredited; treating a belief's age as credit is not part of his formulation.

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