What is the title of C.S. Lewis’s 1943 book about moral education and objective value?

C.S. Lewis’s 1943 book about moral education and objective value is The Abolition of Man.

The Abolition of Man developed from three lectures Lewis delivered at the University of Durham in 1943. In the book, he argues against moral subjectivism and defends the existence of objective values that human beings can recognize and cultivate.

Lewis begins by criticizing a fictional English textbook, The Green Book, especially its treatment of emotional responses to statements about beauty and value. He argues that education should form the student’s character rather than merely train the student to manipulate facts or feelings. His discussion draws on traditions from several civilizations, not only Christianity.

The final chapter examines how technological control over nature could become control over humanity itself. The work is sometimes confused with Lewis’s apologetic books because it contains religious implications, but its immediate focus is education, morality and the consequences of rejecting objective value.