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# Wednesday
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/18881/
- Published: 2011-03-30T06:09:08.000Z
- Updated: 2011-03-30T06:09:08.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Philosophy, #wpChunk

![Younganscombe](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Younganscombe.jpg "Younganscombe")

C.S. Lewis was a very good debater. He wasn't as viciously clever as Belloc, nor as disarmingly effective as Chesterton, but he was good. They say he never lost a debate while at Oxford. Until he ran into [Elizabeth Anscombe](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.%5FE.%5FM.%5FAnscombe?ref=thedailyeudemon.com). Accounts vary. Some say she shredded Lewis; others say it was mostly a draw, with a slight edge to Anscombe. Regardless, we know it rattled Lewis. Many have assumed that Anscombe must've been some post-modern freakazoid thinker who tripped up Lewis with deconstructionalist arguments or other bizarre angles that he hadn't delved into. Not so. Anscombe was a traditionalist Catholic. Brilliant, but very Catholic. I've never read anything by her, but while searching for information about the eccentric Wittgenstein (pronounced, I think, "Vittgenstine"), I discovered that a new book of her philosophical essays is coming out later this year: *From Plato to Wittgenstein: Essays by GEM Anscombe*. It looks excellent. I've added it to my "Wish List."