What was the title of C.S. Lewis’s 1943 book arguing that objective values are essential to education?

The Abolition of Man is C.S. Lewis’s 1943 book arguing that objective values are essential to education and moral judgment. The work developed from three lectures Lewis delivered at the University of Durham in 1943.

Lewis examines what he sees as the danger of treating value judgments as nothing more than subjective feelings. He argues that education should cultivate appropriate responses to objective goods rather than produce people who merely reject all claims about moral order.

The book’s title refers to the consequences of reducing human reason and moral agency to mechanisms that can be engineered or manipulated. It is not a work of fiction and is distinct from Lewis’s apologetic books such as Miracles and The Problem of Pain.