In Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis lectures the importance of man’s emotions. Man use emotion in everything that we say, defend, or argue. Lewis believes that our emotions have habits, that means the emotions present themselves immediately and that can be difficult for trying something new. Therefore, a man should not let our regular emotions routine get in the way of trying something new.
When a man has trained their emotions, it could be dangerous because it would not let a man try new unique things. C.S. Lewis states that our “emotions organized by trained habit into stable sentiments” (Lewis 24-25). Lewis explains that we have trained our brains to organized emotions into a conformable state. That means our judgment comes into play when our emotions are activated. To explain more about this, I believe the …show more content…
The student leader presented the question, what is a pie? She put the class into three groups and told each group to defend their item of the group. One group had an original pumpkin pie, pizza, and my original cake pie-pike. Everyone in discussion believed that my pie was an actual chocolate pie because of its appearance. Once the student leader told the class that the unique pie had cake batter with pieces of pie in it. At moment, everyone started to attack the unique pie, and even the professor that was leading the discussion called it “fake pie”. In addition, there was only one person who tried it and said it was really good and ate the whole piece. Meanwhile, nobody wanted to try it because it was not an authentic pie. In this social experiment, is where Lewis states that we trained our emotions based on our habit. Here in this social experiment, the majority of the class knows what an authentic pie is. The majority of the class has tried amazing pies through the course of their lives. Therefore, our history has trained our