Hey guys, good posts.
the knife in the back thing is a reference to Caesar. Julius C. laughed at honor and payed the price for it. So will we, if our society gives up objective morality, and starts actually believing in utillitarianism, which says that men create their own morality for their own use. i.e., we create a compass for the next society to follow. "look in my eyes, you won't find your way back": this refers to the nature of a person without any objective groundwork or foundation. you get lost in them, they are not coherent themselves, there is no unifying aspect of their nature, they are empty. Lewis calls them "MEN WITHOUT CHESTS". he says the head rules the belly through the chest, and when you take away the chest (objective morality) the head starts to get controlled by the belly. things get bad.
natural law is written on our hearts. god made mother nature, and he made her with natural laws written on the hearts of human beings. such is the nature of objective morality, that appears in all the religions and moral systems of the world. But man rejects tradition and tries his own thing. For instance, we reject traditional views of sex and invent condoms and all sorts of birth control, and start to teach the next generation in public schools that the traditional view of sex is not objective, and we tell them what we feel is a better view of sex, that you can have it as a teenager as long as you "never work without your gloves." thus, science creates a way for one society to govern the behavior of the next, using technology (birth control and abortion, genetic programming, etc.) to achieve this end.
Hey guys, good posts. the knife in the back thing is a reference to Caesar. Julius C. laughed at honor and payed the price for it. So will we, if our society gives up objective morality, and starts actually believing in utillitarianism, which says that men create their own morality for their own use. i.e., we create a compass for the next society to follow. "look in my eyes, you won't find your way back": this refers to the nature of a person without any objective groundwork or foundation. you get lost in them, they are not coherent themselves, there is no unifying aspect of their nature, they are empty. Lewis calls them "MEN WITHOUT CHESTS". he says the head rules the belly through the chest, and when you take away the chest (objective morality) the head starts to get controlled by the belly. things get bad.
natural law is written on our hearts. god made mother nature, and he made her with natural laws written on the hearts of human beings. such is the nature of objective morality, that appears in all the religions and moral systems of the world. But man rejects tradition and tries his own thing. For instance, we reject traditional views of sex and invent condoms and all sorts of birth control, and start to teach the next generation in public schools that the traditional view of sex is not objective, and we tell them what we feel is a better view of sex, that you can have it as a teenager as long as you "never work without your gloves." thus, science creates a way for one society to govern the behavior of the next, using technology (birth control and abortion, genetic programming, etc.) to achieve this end.