The Abolition of Man is subtitled "Reflections on education with special reference to the teaching of English in the upper forms of schools." It's a defense of objective value and natural law, and a warning of the consequences of doing away with those things. It defends science as something worth pursuing.C.S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man purports to be a book specifically about public education, but its central concerns are broadly political, religious, and philosophical. In the best of the book's three essays, "Men Without Chests," Lewis trains his laser-sharp wit on a mid- century English high school text, considering the ramifications of teaching British students to believe in idle relativism, and to reject "the doctrine of objective value, the belief that certain attitudes are really true, and others really false, to the kind of thing the universe is and the kinds of things we are." Lewis calls this doctrine the "Tao," and he spends much of the book explaining why society needs a . CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THIS BOOK FOR FREE
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