1. In the opening paragraphs of the first chapter, Lewis talks about quarreling. Explain what Lewis thinks that quarreling shows, and explain how it shows this, as far as Lewis is concerned.

 2. Lewis makes an implicit reference to relativistic ethics in the first chapter. Where does he do this? Explain the example that he is talking about.

 3. What does Lewis say about the differences in moral views that people say exist and have existed through history?

 4. What does Lewis have to say about those individuals who say that there isn't a real right and wrong? Is he right about this in your view?

 5. What are the two point that Lewis wanted to make in chapter one?

 6. What is a 'herd instinct'? What are the three ways that Lewis offers to combat the view that the Moral Law is just our herd instinct?

 7. What is the response that Lewis makes to the view that the Moral Law is just a social convention?

 8. What is the point of the comparison between the Moral Law and mathematics that Lewis makes? Explain the details of the comparison.

 9. What is the point of Lewis distinction between differences of morality and difference of fact.

 10. What are the two odd things about human beings that Lewis mentions?

11. How does Lewis characterize the difference between the 'laws of nature' and the 'Law of Human Nature'?

12. What does Lewis mean when he talks about attempts to 'explain away' the difference between the notion of laws of nature and the notion of the law(s) of human nature?

13. Explain the first attempt (that Lewis discusses) to 'explain away' the human inclination to talk about what people ought to do, and explain Lewis's objection(s) to this attempt.

14. Explain the second attempt (that Lewis discusses) to 'explain away' the human inclination to talk about what people ought to do, and explain Lewis's objection(s) to this attempt.

15. Lewis says, at one point, that the Moral Law, or Law of Human Nature, 'is not simply a fact about human behavior in the same way as the Law of Gravitation is, or may be, simply a fact about how heavy objects behave'. What else does Lewis go on to say about the Moral Law?

16. What does Lewis say this Law of Human Nature 'tells us about the Universe we live in"?

17. On the final page of the essay (in the text), Lewis sumarizes the conclusion that he thinks he is entitled to. What is this conclusion, and what considerations has he drawn this conclusion from?

18. What is the evidence for the existence of God that Lewis mentions in the final section of Mere Christianity? Summarize Lewis's overall argument for the existence of God.

 19. What are the major points of disagreement between Dan Barker, the author of 'Mere Assertions' and C. S. Lewis?