This “meaning crisis” conversation will eventually come to a natural law ethic, or it will never resolve. Chapter Six…. For without the judgement ‘Benevolence is good’ – that is, without re-entering the Tao – [the Conditioners] can have no ground for promoting or stabilizing these impulses rather than any others. The Abolition of Man, by C.S. Lewis Benevolence: desire to do good to others; goodwill; charitableness: an act of kindness; a charitable gift: Hierarchies have always existed and will always exist.  Once a value is promoted, a hierarchy based on success toward that value will be established.  This chapter will begin to examine the … Continue reading Love as Man’s Highest Purpose