The Abolition of Man (Paperback)

from gbanville

This book is a very brief and powerful defense of a philosophical concept known as Natural Law. This book takes as its point of departure some philosophical ideas embedded in a British high-school textbook of Grammar or Literature. The ideas discussed in the beginning appear to derive from logica...

from august30

In "Men Without Chests", the first of three lectures that comprise his important defense of objective values, The Abolition of Man: Reflections on Education with Special Reference to the Teaching of English in the Upper Forms of Schools (1943), C.S. Lewis takes as his departure a remark by two au...

from Ljrei77

C.S. Lewis has done what most christian writers cannot do: unbiasedly write a fantastic critique of man's current state of nature. While there are some christian themes in this book, Lewis has most steered away from it, offering a truly intelligent and quite true critique on man's nature. I am no...

from BradKautz

The Abolition of Man (New York: Macmillan, 1947) is unlike anything else I have read by C.S. Lewis. I am familiar with his work in apologetics and fiction. I know that vocationally his speciality was medieval English language, which is not among my interests vocationally or avocationally. I picke...

from ggannell

I find this a challenging and helpful book. I love the concept "Men without chests" where Lewis writes of castrating me and then bidding them to be fruitful, in the context of removing our foundations for morality and then insisting that we act morally - this seems to be at the heart of many of t...