What 1943 book by C.S. Lewis argues against the removal of objective values from education?

The Abolition of Man is C.S. Lewis’s 1943 book arguing against removing objective values from education.

The work developed from three lectures Lewis delivered at the University of Durham in February 1943. It was published later that year and consists of three chapters: “Men Without Chests,” “The Way,” and “The Abolition of Man.”

Lewis criticizes an approach to education that treats value judgments as nothing more than subjective feelings. He argues that moral education should cultivate rightly ordered emotions and connect human judgment with what he calls the Tao, a term he uses for a broad tradition of objective moral principles.

The book is not a novel and is distinct from Lewis’s Christian apologetic works such as Mere Christianity. Its discussion of education, morality, and technological power has attracted readers in philosophy, literature, and political thought. The title refers to the danger that human beings may surrender the qualities that make them fully human.