C. S. Lewis Opinions On Morality

James Rachels claims that morality is absolute. In his article Mortality is Not Relative, he discusses the fallacies of Cultural Relativism as well as the Cultural Differences Argument. Rachels believes that all cultures have some values in common and that there is way less disagreement between them than it seems. He brings up the example of the Eskimo’s and how they choose to kill the infants that they cannot take care of, “The Eskimo’s values are not all that different from our values. It is only that life forces upon them choices that we do not have to make” (Rachels). Another example of this would be how in some cultures it is wrong to eat cows because they believe that the souls of their ancestors and deceased are reincarnated into the cow. In our culture we would not eat our grandparents either, the only difference is we do not believe that they become cows, thus we would have no problem eating cows. “Now do we want to say that their values are different than ours? No, the difference lies elsewhere. The difference is in our belief systems, not in our values” (Rachels).

Morality exists throughout all cultures and religions of the world in some shape or form. In

"I am tall, fat, rather bold, red-faced, double-chinned, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading" --C. S. Lewis's picture of himself in a letter. A nickname of C.S. Lewis, Jack, was devised when Lewis declared he wanted to be called Jacksie but the nickname was shortened to Jack. Lewis is a 20th century author, with over thirty-five books published. C.S. Lewis’s works were influenced by his life experiences.

Moral traits are shaped by the culture you’ve grown up in. This can be found true in the novel The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, characters prove in many ways how their culture shows through the approach to the Price family. The Price family moved to the Kilanga to spread the word of Jesus Christ. While on their mission they come to meet a individual by the name of Anatole Ngemba that shows how the Congo does define a person's character but by their actions only.

C.S. Lewis is one of the greatest authors in history. His books are still widely available and sold to many interested readers. In Lewis’ childhood, he experienced a tragedy that affected his belief in god; in his middle life, he mainly focused on college and his studies, but his father’s death played a role in Lewis later becoming a Christian. In Lewis’ later life, he married one of his own fans. Clive’s passion for writing began when he was a small child, and it continued to grow as he furthered his education to become a college professor at Oxford University. Lewis is still remembered today for his great works, such as The Screwtape Letters and The Chronicles of Narnia, which is a popular series among children.

From my perception of why a person reads I easily agree with CS Lewis’s quote. It would seem to me that most people take advantage of the reasons we read. While reading we yearn for adventures or stories that help us escape from reality, so in a way we reach out for characters, stories or adventures. This doesn’t necessarily mean that a person is physically lonely, but rather that there is more experiences out there. Whether a reader’s life is dull or eventful, reading a new story can fill voids. One comparison to this would be a curious mind wondering if there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. They study the endless void in the sky eager to find new treasures. In my view this means a person can intentionally or subconsciously

It is the dead of winter, and you are in the backseat of a luxurious car enjoying the mild warmth of a seat warmer. You don’t know where the car is taking you, but the seat is gradually getting hotter and hotter until it scalds your body, sets the car ablaze, and leaves you in a fiery agony for all of eternity. Many people have many different views of what Heaven will be like, and what Hell will be like as well, often including mental images of eternal happiness and burning in some fiery location respectively. Both C.S. Lewis and Benedict XVI go against this common perception of Heaven & Hell in their own separate ways.

Lewis expresses that each person is created differently with their own set of talents. How we use these talents to please God and live a virtuous life is what truly matters. We cannot compare ourselves to others in this sense because God judges based on moral choices not external actions and “raw material”, which is all humans can see. God does not judge based on the “raw material”

Morality is something that is not really thought of when describing a person. Whether the individual has a good, strong background or a more disruptive, inconsiderate background, it results into what they stand for. Society today tends to promote individuals which portray a more crumbling morality standpoint, rather to someone that keeps an uplifting morality. When it was announced that the troubled teen that shot up Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida was receiving fan mail and donations for what he did, it was demonstrated what type of morality America stands with. People with poor morals become more corrupt within themselves than those with rich morals.

However, C.S. Lewis had a great interest in the work of George MacDonald was part of what turned him from atheism. In one of the passage’s from Lewis’s The Great Divorce, chapter nine he writes about the work of MacDonald, “... I tried, trembling, to tell this man all that his writings had done for me. I tried to tell how a certain frosty afternoon at Leatherhead Station when I had first bought a copy of Phantastes (being then about sixteen years old) had been to me what the first sight of Beatrice had been to Dante: Here begins the new life. I started to confess how long that Life had delayed in the region of imagination merely: how slowly and reluctantly I had come to admit that his Christendom had more than an accidental connexion with it, how hard I had tried not to see the true name of the quality which first met me in his books is Holiness.”

My mom asked me many different questions about what I had written. She first started off by asking why I choose this book. Truthfully I choose it because my dad recommended it. I didn’t want to end up choosing a book that he thought was dumb or inappropriate, or something of that nature. I did enjoy the book but it isn’t fast like the action books I normally like to read. My mom also asked about why I didn’t question C.S. Lewis’s writing. I had wanted to show what an amazing idea that was. I also was intrigued by how C.S. Lewis represented the demons and their ways of thinking. I didn’t necessarily consider that Lewis could be incredibly wrong. It is the best hypothesis I have yet heard.

What is Morality Every culture is fundamentally

Many things can contribute to what you think is morally right or wrong. Religion, for example, may create a barrier on to what extent you do something. Some religions set rules, or guidelines on which they limit what people do. Cultures, as well, contribute to people’s decisions. Many times our values and ethics disagree with different people who hold different

To answer Preston (2001, p39) question one, it would depend on the circumstances. I have the moral understanding passed down via my family beliefs passed on from previous generations to them, from their parents and grandparents, I also have the influencing values of friends in my social circle. I believe I have learnt the right moral behaviour, as

When we are young our morality is shaped as we learn from our family and the environment. “Psychologists say a child must develop a sense of values by the age of seven to become an adult with a conscience” (Rosenstand 4). Children experience a plethora of information and subsequently build their personalities based on what they learn from growing up in their given culture. We are a product of our environment in the sense that we