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Your Doctrine Of Value

Your Doctrine Of Value

Where does your doctrine of value come from?

Are you making decisions based on the Tao?

Or based on the emotional strength of an impulse?

This is worth considering in detail if you have not done so before.

The impulse to scratch when I itch or to pull to pieces when I am inquisitive is immune from the solvent which is fatal to my justice, or honour, or care for posterity. When all that says ‘it is good’ has been debunked, what says ‘I want’ remains. It cannot be exploded or ‘seen through’ because it never had any pretensions. The Conditioners, therefore, must come to be motivated simply by their own pleasure. I am not here speaking of the corrupting influence of power nor expressing the fear that under it our Conditioners will degenerate. The very word corrupt and degenerate imply a doctrine of value and are therefore meaningless in this context. My point is that those who stand outside all judgments of value cannot have any ground for preferring one of their own impulses to another except the emotional strength of that impulse.

-C.S. Lewis, The Abolition Of Man (Amazon)

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