The Poison of Subjectivism

The title of this article is not original. It is, in fact, the title of an essay by C.S. Lewis. I think, however, that Lewis makes a point in this article which bears repeating, viz., that moral judgments, judgments of value, judgments about good and evil, right and wrong must be based upon some objective standard. “The modern view,” says Lewis “is very different. It does not believe that value judgments are really judgments at all. They are sentiments, or complexes, or attitudes, produced in a...