What is the title of C.S. Lewis’s 1943 book about education, morality, and objective values?

C.S. Lewis’s 1943 book about education, morality, and objective values is The Abolition of Man.

The Abolition of Man developed from three lectures Lewis delivered at the University of Durham in February 1943. The book criticizes an approach to education that, in Lewis’s view, treats moral judgments as merely subjective emotional reactions.

Lewis argues for the existence of objective values and a shared moral order, which he calls the Tao. He warns that attempts to reshape human nature through technological power could ultimately diminish the qualities that make people fully human. The work is philosophical rather than a novel or a straightforward devotional book.

The title is sometimes misunderstood as a call for humanity’s destruction. In context, Lewis is warning that certain kinds of moral relativism and technological control could produce the “abolition” of humanity in the fullest sense. The book remains one of his most discussed works on ethics and education.