Chapter 22: The Imperial "I"

D'Souza marks out the issues with secular morality. It is imbued in selfishness and in the falliability of human desire. It takes love from a consumate thing and turns it into eros. While it appears similar to traditional Christianity, it is wholly different. Christianity tells us to look into ourselves to see the truth and to know what is right. Secular morality, according to D'Souza, calls for us to look into our "inner self" to discover what we desire. Moreover, this desire is what is right. It promotes subjectivism as the moral foundation for choices. There are dire consequences to this approach, however. Hitler was said to live to his true self. Men who leave their wives for younger women could be thought of living for their true self. These sorts of choices are clearly wrong and point to an objective morality by which they are condemned.