can ethics be taugth?
As C.S. Lewis says, the music isn’t put in by society, only the tune can be altered. God must put the basic music in himself. Lewis’ example is to ask why a young boy feels wronged if a classmate steals his orange from his lunch pail? No one taught the boy that stealing is wrong yet in his life, yet he feels it in his spirit. This is the innate music of morality instituted within us by the Lord Himself. Thus ethics education cannot strive to “teach” morality in the sense of giving someone a sense of morality, it can only attune that already existent sense to the truth of Scripture so that the right morals are felt and acted upon.
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