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

C.S. Lewis’s 1943 book about the dangers of subjectivism and moral education is The Abolition of Man. The book developed from three lectures delivered at the University of Durham in February 1943.

Lewis argued that moral education should not reduce values to personal feelings or social conditioning. He defended what he called the Tao, a term he used for a cross-cultural body of basic moral principles found in many traditions. In his view, rejecting objective value could damage both education and human character.

The work is organized into three chapters: “Men Without Chests,” “The Way,” and “The Abolition of Man.” Its argument moves from classroom textbooks to a broader warning about technological power detached from moral restraint.

The title does not describe the physical extinction of humanity. Lewis meant the transformation of human beings into products of manipulation, in which future controllers could shape people’s desires and values. It is therefore different from his apologetic works The Problem of Pain and Mere Christianity.