The Abolition Of Man: Or Reflections On Education With Special Reference To The Teaching Of English In The Upper Forms Of Schools
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Edition: repr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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What does it mean to be human in an age that reduces all values to mere sentiment? In The Abolition of Man, C. S. Lewis mounts a rigorous and passionate defence of objective value, arguing that the modern approach to education — one that dismisses the emotional and moral dimensions of human experience as subjective — is not a liberation of the intellect, but a slow dismantling of humanity itself. Delivered originally as the Fifteenth Series of the Riddell Memorial Lectures at the University of Durham, this compact yet formidable work chronicles the consequences of a civilisation that abandons the Tao, Lewis's term for the universal moral order recognised across cultures and centuries. Lewis writes with the precision of a scholar and the urgency of a prophet, drawing on Plato, Aristotle, Confucius, and the traditions of natural law to illustrate how the excision of moral training from education produces not free thinkers, but what he memorably calls men without chests — individuals stripped of the magnanimity and sentiment that mediate between intellect and appetite. The book's final lecture, which lends the volume its haunting title, presents a chilling vision of a future in which the Conditioners — those who have transcended all value — rule over a humanity they have themselves unmade. Decades after its first publication, its warnings resonate with an urgency that compels the reader to ask: have we already begun the abolition?
Author: C. S. Lewis
Format: Paperback
Published: 1962, Geoffrey Bles
Genre: Philosophy
Edition: repr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image; small price sticker on the front cover;
What does it mean to be human in an age that reduces all values to mere sentiment? In The Abolition of Man, C. S. Lewis mounts a rigorous and passionate defence of objective value, arguing that the modern approach to education — one that dismisses the emotional and moral dimensions of human experience as subjective — is not a liberation of the intellect, but a slow dismantling of humanity itself. Delivered originally as the Fifteenth Series of the Riddell Memorial Lectures at the University of Durham, this compact yet formidable work chronicles the consequences of a civilisation that abandons the Tao, Lewis's term for the universal moral order recognised across cultures and centuries. Lewis writes with the precision of a scholar and the urgency of a prophet, drawing on Plato, Aristotle, Confucius, and the traditions of natural law to illustrate how the excision of moral training from education produces not free thinkers, but what he memorably calls men without chests — individuals stripped of the magnanimity and sentiment that mediate between intellect and appetite. The book's final lecture, which lends the volume its haunting title, presents a chilling vision of a future in which the Conditioners — those who have transcended all value — rule over a humanity they have themselves unmade. Decades after its first publication, its warnings resonate with an urgency that compels the reader to ask: have we already begun the abolition?