COMM 2273 Lecture Notes - Lecture 43: Copper Kettle, Strake Jesuit College Preparatory, C. S. Lewis
10 Feb 2020
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At naturalism: inanimate objects can"t be blamed for their failure to benefit us as human, they are merely existing. Rational humans, on the other hand, have two distinct facets: the factual, who they are, and something else, what they ought to be. If you take a thing like a stone or a tree, it is what it is and there seems no sense in saying it ought to have been otherwise. But all you mean is that the stone or tree does not happen to be convenient for some purpose of your own. You are not, except as a joke, blaming them for that. You really know, that, given the weather and the soil, the tree could not have been any different. What we, from our point of view, call a "bad" tree is obeying the laws of its nature just as much as a.
