Commentary
Rejecting the Tao will eventually result in tyranny, warned C.S. Lewis in his 1944 book “The Abolition of Man.” The Tao has been defined variously as the way, the road, the absolute principle underlying the universe, the code of behaviour that is in harmony with the natural order, and the sole source of all value judgments.
Lewis equates the Tao with traditional moral values, with natural law, and with first principles. He calls it “the doctrine of objective value, the belief that certain attitudes are really true, and others really false.”
When Lewis describes the Tao as “a common human law of action which can over-arch rulers and ruled alike,” it sounds like the rule of law, one of Canada’s foundational constitutional principles, along with the supremacy of God….