Which C.S. Lewis book includes the chapter title “Men Without Chests”?

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The Abolition of Man includes the chapter title “Men Without Chests.” C.S. Lewis published the book in 1943 after delivering the Riddell Memorial Lectures at the University of Durham.

The chapter challenges an educational approach that, in Lewis’s view, trained students to dismiss objective value as mere personal emotion. He argued that reason and emotion should work together rather than being treated as opposing faculties.

The phrase “men without chests” describes people whose intellectual judgments have been separated from properly trained affections. The book is often discussed alongside Lewis’s concerns about moral education, but it is more specifically an argument about objective value, human formation, and the consequences of moral subjectivism.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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