Objection #2: “Isn’t what you call the Moral Law just a social convention, something that is put into us by education?” “The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys… has not got two kinds of notes on it, the ‘right’ notes and the ‘wrong’ ones… There is none of our impulses which the Moral Law may not sometimes tell us to suppress, and none which it may not sometimes tell us to encourage” No instinct dominates, every instinct has its place. Now this thing that judges between two instincts…cannot itself be either of them…it usually seems to be telling us to side with the weaker of the two impulses… often tells us to try to make the right impulse stronger” “… a third thing which tells you that you ought to follow the impulse to help, and suppress the impulse to run away. “…feeling a desire to help is quite different from feeling that you ought to help whether you want to or not” There is a difference between instinct and the Moral Law. Objection #1: “Isn’t what you call the Moral Law simply our herd instinct? Here are my notes for Chapter 2 (Book 1) of Mere Christianity. In this chapter, Jack outlines objections which might be raised in response to his assertion that there is a Moral Law of which we all fall short…
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