by David » February 22nd, 2006, 8:02 pm
Lewis is very Platonic in his thinking--not the political Platonism of The Republic but the idea that visible things are related to larger, invisible matters. For Plato there was a realm of ideas that gave things finality and defined them. For Lewis, the idea was that there are heavenly things that do the same. Narnia is, in a sense, a Platonic version of earth--an ideal where the things we know in our earthly experience are realities. I think that's what Diggory means when he says, "It's all in Plato."
Lewis also once commented that Protestants tend to be Platonic and Catholics Aristotelian. Very fascinating comment, I think.
The way, the weather, the terrain, the discipline, the leadership. --Sun Tzu