Which C.S. Lewis book argues that modern education can produce people without moral judgment?

The Abolition of Man argues that modern education can produce people without moral judgment.

Lewis published The Abolition of Man in 1943 after delivering the Riddell Memorial Lectures at the University of Durham. The book responds to a view of language and value that Lewis believed reduced moral statements to expressions of personal feeling.

Lewis defends what he calls the Tao, a phrase he uses for a cross-cultural framework of basic moral principles. He argues that education should cultivate rightly ordered emotions and judgment, not merely train students to manipulate facts or satisfy preferences.

The book’s title refers to the possible reduction of humanity through a technological and educational program that strips away objective value. It is not a conventional political treatise or a narrative novel; it is a short work of philosophical and educational criticism.