The Way

In this essay CS Lewis describes how the next part of this book that is pushed is the idea of instinct. He states that the book leans us to rely on instinct. He gives an example of how instincts can't be used in all situations. He states that the Christian faith says, "no man has greater love than this: that he lay down his life for his friend." He states that if we use our instincts we would lose that. Our instincts don't encourage us to give our life up. We yearn for our own survival. We don't think of the survival of others. This instinctual system of thinking takes away our ability to reason and think things through. This then takes away our concept of morals. everything comes down to our basic instinctual needs. We don't need other people. When it comes to our survival verses theirs we would instinctually choose our own. We don't think about the well being of others. We lose everything that we stand for. The bible states, "do unto others as you would have them do unto you." This falls apart if we rely on instinct. The whole idea takes away the head of man, or the ability to reason. The chest is already gone, now the head. What's next?