What was the title of C.S. Lewis’s 1943 book arguing that modern education can undermine objective values?

The Abolition of Man is C.S. Lewis’s 1943 book arguing that education can undermine objective values.

The work began as a series of three lectures delivered at the University of Durham in February 1943. Lewis responds to approaches to education and language that, in his view, reduce moral judgments to subjective feelings. He argues for the existence of objective values and for the importance of educating emotion so that reason and feeling can work together.

Lewis uses the traditional Chinese term “the Tao” for a broad framework of basic moral principles shared across cultures. He warns that rejecting such principles could produce people who are technically powerful but morally diminished. The argument is philosophical and cultural rather than a simple attack on schooling itself.

The book is often confused with Mere Christianity because both discuss moral reasoning. The Abolition of Man is a shorter, more specialized work focused on education, value, and the consequences of moral subjectivism.