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Irrigating Deserts: Thinking with C. S. Lewis about Educating for Emotional Formation

Many liberal arts colleges express a commitment to educate the whole person; yet, educating for emotional formation rarely receives explicit attention. In The Abolition of Man C.S. Lewis argues that proper moral education essentially involves emotional formation informed by an understanding of emotions as recognitions of objective values that function together with reason to yield…
Adam C. Pelser
October 15, 2014