tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10770371.post111109820455116353..comments2023-02-07T11:29:42.324-05:00Comments on Jordan's View: Becoming MoralAlexander M. Jordanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00770170433201342289noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10770371.post-1112369197688542802005-04-01T10:26:00.000-05:002005-04-01T10:26:00.000-05:00C.S.Lewis's excellent book "The Abolition of Man" ...C.S.Lewis's excellent book "The Abolition of Man" has some wonderful thoughts on the subject as well as his essay "On Ethics". Rational thinking is a wonderful tool for deriving new truths from old ones, but it has no power to establish the "first truths" from which all others flow. Christians maintain that God provides those first truths through the Bible, through the life of Jesus, and through the conscience God has implanted in all of us. Given these "axioms" and with the help of the Holy Spirit, we have the hope of reasoning accurately about morality. Lewis argues persuasively that a primary goal of childhood education (in the broad sense -- not just the thing done in school) is to strengthen our understanding and appreciation of these axioms, which are apprehended not primarily through reason but through the heart (the "chest", he calls it).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com