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A person does not have to be a Christian to validate the existence of the Law of Human Nature. Lewis explains ” The idea was that, Just as all bodies are governed by the law of gravitation, and organisms by biological laws, so the creature called man also had his law-with this great difference, that a body could not choose whether it obeyed the Law of Human Nature or to disobey It (Lewis 4). ” All humans have the expectation that people are going to act fairly. Lewis argues that even if a person does not believe or egress or even denies the Moral Law he/she still abide by the law with their behavior and their actions.
Every single person expects to be treated with respect and with fairness. We all believe that some moralities are better than others and if people tried going against that morality that we believe in then they are bad people, by doing so we are basing that persons morals to a standard, a standard of right and wrong by which we all abide by and we expect other people to abide by as well, the Moral Law. Lewis said, ” I now go back to what I said at the end of the flirts chapter, that there ere two odd things about the human race.
First, that they were haunted by the idea of a sort of behavior they ought to practice, what you might call fair play, or decency, or morality, or the Law of Nature. Second, that they did not in fact do so (Lewis 16). ” Lewis tries to explain what he believes are two realities about man. He explains that the Law of Human Nature is a standard that tells man what should be done. Everyone agrees with the Law of Human Nature, this law Is truth and they express It, but they do not live by this law. Men feel pressure to act a certain way to behave in a manner that Is expected of him.
However, man also does not do what Is expected of him. Men behave in a certain way and we sit back and Judge knowing that they should be behaving In a completely deferent way. Lewis is trying to convey to us that man does not just obey what is expected of him. Man knows what he should do but he simply does not do it. The Life-Force philosophy according to Lewis Is the In-between view In relation to the materialist view and the religious view. The Life-Force philosophy is merely y chance but by a purpose of a life force.
Lewis explains that if that purpose has a mind then it is really a God. Lewis says that “One reason why many people find Creative Evolution so attractive is that it give one much of the emotional comfort of believing in a God and none of the less pleasant consequences… The Life-Force is a sort of tame God. You can switch it on when you want, but it will not bother you. All the thrills of religion and none of the cost (Lewis 26-27). ” According to Lewis God is the above and beyond behind the Moral Law.
God has put in the Moral Law into our mind. The Moral Law is like our consciousness that God has put input head. Lewis says that being behind the universe is intensely interested in behaving Justly, behaving morally. Lewis tells us that that being behind the Moral Law does not necessarily mean that God is good. God tells us what to do. The Moral Law tells us to do the straight things and it does not matter how painful or difficult it is to do it. God is a Just God and he created the Moral Law to give us a chance to choose between Just and unjust.