What was the title of C.S. Lewis’s 1943 book about the danger of abolishing human values?

C.S. Lewis’s 1943 book about the danger of abolishing human values was The Abolition of Man.

The Abolition of Man was published in 1943 and developed from three lectures Lewis delivered at the University of Durham. The book criticizes an approach to education and moral judgment that, in his view, treats value statements as nothing more than subjective feelings. Lewis argues for the existence of objective values, which he calls the Tao.

The work is organized around three chapters: “Men Without Chests,” “The Way,” and “The Abolition of Man.” Its final section considers how technological control over nature could become control over human nature itself.

Readers sometimes confuse this title with The Problem of Pain, another major Lewis book published in 1940. The Abolition of Man is primarily a philosophical and educational argument, while The Problem of Pain addresses the theological problem of suffering.