Tag: C.S. Lewis
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C. S. Lewis on the (Non) Additivity of Pain in Relation to the Problem of Evil
In The Problem of Pain (Fontana 1957, pp. 203-204, first publ. in 1940), C. S. Lewis writes, We must never make the problem of pain worse than it is by vague talk about the 'unimaginable sum of human misery'. Suppose that I have a toothache of intensity x: and suppose that you, who are seated…