In C.S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man, what phrase describes people lacking moral judgment?

“Men Without Chests” describes people lacking the trained moral judgment discussed in C.S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man.

The phrase is the title of the book's second chapter, in which Lewis argues that education should cultivate the emotions as well as the intellect. He uses the chest as a metaphor for the part of a person that connects reason with spirited feeling and properly directed affection.

Lewis was responding to trends in education and moral philosophy that, in his view, treated value judgments as merely subjective reactions. He argued that a healthy human character requires trained emotions capable of responding appropriately to objective values.

The Abolition of Man was based on three lectures delivered at the University of Durham in 1943 and published as a book that same year. The phrase is often quoted separately from the work, but its meaning depends on Lewis's broader argument about education, nature, and moral formation.