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The Abolition of Man is a 1943 book by C. S. Lewis. Subtitled "Reflections on education with special reference to the teaching of English in the upper forms of schools", it uses that as a starting point for a defense of objective value and natural law as well as a warning about the consequences of doing away with them.
10 de jul. de 2008 · The Abolition of Man. Topics. C.S. Lewis, education, natural law, morals. Collection. opensource. Language. English. A PDF version of the classic Lewis text on Natural Law morality. Created from the Augustine Club version housed elsewhere in the Internet Archive.
30 de sept. de 2015 · Anthropologists Richard Shweder and Alan Fiske have also discovered similar universal values in their research, and psychologist Jonathan Haidt has boiled them down to five basic moral intuitions: harm, fairness, community (or group loyalty), authority and purity. Haidt calls them “the primary colors of our moral sense” (p. 4).
7 de abr. de 2015 · In The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis sets out to persuade his audience of the importance and relevance of universal values such as courage and honor in contemporary society. Both astonishing and prophetic, The Abolition of Man is one of the most debated of Lewis’s extraordinary works.
Peter Schakel. The Abolition of Man, a book on education and moral values by C.S. Lewis, published in 1943. The book originated as the Riddell Memorial Lectures, three lectures delivered at the University of Durham in February 1943. Many people regard this as Lewis’s most important book.
When we release man from the jaws of natural consequences and determine for ourselves what human nature is. “The final stage is come when Man by eugenics, by pre-natal conditioning, and by an education and propaganda based on a perfect applied psychology, has obtained full control over himself.
In the third and final lecture, “The Abolition of Man,” Lewis considers what happens when people think of the Tao as just one among many aspects of “Nature” that humanity now has the power to conquer.
