Which C.S. Lewis book was published in 1943 as a study of education and moral values?

The Abolition of Man was published by C.S. Lewis in 1943 as a study of education, value, and moral reasoning.

The book grew out of three lectures delivered at the University of Durham in February 1943. Lewis criticized an approach to education that, in his view, treated value judgments as merely subjective feelings. He argued instead for the importance of objective values and disciplined moral formation.

The work is shorter and more philosophical than Lewis’s popular Christian apologetics. Its argument culminates in a warning about what may happen when technological power is separated from inherited moral standards.

The title is sometimes confused with fictional works such as The Great Divorce. The Abolition of Man is a nonfiction philosophical book, not a novel.