C.S. Lewis on ethics and sanctification/ by Jerry Root.

The approach of Euthyphro, Protagoras, and Rousseau to ethics, though quite dominant, have gone against the grain of nature and good sense. In blazing contrast, C. S. Lewis, writing from a perspective heavily influenced by classical and medieval thought runs with the true grain of life. In an experiment in Criticism, C. S. Lewis wrote, In coming to understand anything, we must reject the facts as they are for us in favor of the facts as they are.? Lewis\u27 comment begins with the presupposition that there is a world that exits 4 external to my thoughts about it. My thoughts are judged to be true or false contingent on their conformity to that world. Though my thought is subjective, it reaches for objectivity as it seeks to know what is real and therefore true. If I would know the truth I must avoid trying to bend reality to my thoughts and rather, conform my thoughts and life to fit reality. To fail in this regard, is to lose perspective; Lewis comments that it would make us like the man who actually believed that the railroad tracks narrowed as they extended from him. In Czechoslovakia, they tell the story of two men walking down a railroad track; tiring, they decide to rest. One of the men suggests they wait and take their rest up ahead where the track comes together; It will be more comfortable, he adds. They walk on and on wondering when they will reach the elusive destination. After a while they look back and to their surprise, discover that they had passed it long ago. It is all nonsense. Lewis pleads with us to leave behind the pollution of such muddled thinking and climb up to the more ambient air which affirms rather than denies reality