What is striking here, of course, is Nietzsche’s claim that the truth might be harmful and even destructive to us if we understood it fully, but that is no argument against it. Indeed, the truth might not be beautiful and good, as “dear idealists” fondly wish it to be. Here we see that Lewis’s decision to defend objective morality without theism leaves him vulnerable to some obvious problems. In particular, without a providential God to ensure ultimate correspondence between happiness and virtue,