What title did C.S. Lewis give his 1943 book on Christian morality and society?

The Abolition of Man is the title C.S. Lewis gave his 1943 book on Christian morality and society.

The work began as a series of three lectures delivered at the University of Durham in February 1943. Lewis criticized an approach to education that, in his view, treated value judgments as merely subjective emotional responses. He argued instead for an objective moral order, which he called the Tao in the book’s comparative discussion.

The three chapters are “Men Without Chests,” “The Way,” and “The Abolition of Man.” Lewis examines education, moral formation, technological power, and the possibility that attempts to control nature could ultimately diminish human nature itself.

The title can cause confusion because the book is not a novel and does not present the same subject as his apologetic works The Problem of Pain or Mere Christianity. It is a compact philosophical and cultural critique, and it has been widely discussed in debates about education, ethics, and technology.