What is the title of C.S. Lewis’s 1943 book based on three wartime lectures about education?

The Abolition of Man is C.S. Lewis’s 1943 book based on three wartime lectures about education. The lectures were delivered at the University of Durham in February 1943 as the Riddell Memorial Lectures.

Lewis criticized an approach to education that, in his view, treated value judgments as merely subjective emotional reactions. He argued for the existence of objective values shared across cultures, which he called the Tao. The book’s three chapters are “Men Without Chests,” “The Way,” and “The Abolition of Man.”

The work is often discussed alongside Lewis’s Christian apologetics, but it is also a critique of educational theory and moral relativism. Its title refers to the possible reduction of humanity through the mastery of nature and the rejection of objective moral formation. It should not be confused with The Abolition of Man’s later influence on political and philosophical debates outside Lewis’s original educational context.