Modernity assumes that psychological techniques, propaganda, brainwashing, indoctrination, and ideology can condition human nature

The Normal and the Perverse

by Mitchell Kalpakgian, Ph.D.




In The Abolition of Man, C. S. Lewis distinguishes between two statements that illustrate an important moral distinction. 

To say in response to a waterfall "This is sublime" does not have the same meaning as "I have sublime feelings." 

Likewise, to state "Children are delightful" or "Old men are venerable" does not carry the same weight of meaning as "I enjoy children" or "I revere old men". 

Lewis argues that the emotional reaction or psychological state of the person expressing his feelings does not determine the sublimity of the waterfall, the charm of children, or the venerability of the elderly. 

These qualities already reside in the nature of the things as intrinsic and given. They are objectively real, not dependent on the subjective responses to them.

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