Worth pondering this days …

… C.S. Lewis and the Development of Doctrine - The Catholic Thing. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

What is required to make sound moral judgments, Lewis contends, is deep training in the virtues. For only when these virtues have been internalized and become second nature will we be able to make such determinations. As Lewis writes, referencing Plato’s Republic (and likely Dante as well), “Only those who are practicing the Tao will understand it. It is the well-nurtured man, the cuor gentil, and he alone, who can recognize Reason when it comes.”