Until modern times no thinker of the first rank ever doubted that our judgments of value were rational judgments or that what they discovered was objective . . . . The modern view is very different. It does not believe that value judgments are really judgments at all. They are sentiments, or complexes, or attitudes, produced in a community by the pressure of its environment and its traditions, and differing from one community to another. To say that a thing is good is merely to express our feeling about it; and our feeling about it is the feeling we have been socially conditioned to have.
C.S. Lewis, Christian Reflections
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