![]() ![]() “…think of humanity as a band playing a tune. On the other hand, if their steering gears are out of order they will not be able to avoid collisions…, its voyage would be a failure if it were meant to reach New York and actually arrived at Calcutta” Musical Band ![]() If the ships keep on having collisions they will not remain seaworthy very long. ![]() “The voyage will be a success only… if the ships do not collide and get in one another’s way and, secondly, if each ship is seaworthy and has her engines in good order… you cannot have either of these two things without the other. “It might lead you…to think you were rather a special person…you might just as well expect to be congratulated because, whenever you do a sum, you try to get it quite right… By talking about rules and obedience instead of “ideals” and ‘idealism’ we help to remind ourselves of these facts” Fleet of Ships Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine” “…moral rules are directions for running the human machine. You can look at my more detailed notes, but this is an overview of the content of Book III of “Mere Christianity”… Chapter 1 – “The Three Parts of Morality” Morality isn’t about interference but our own good ![]()
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