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Lewis</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><caption class="infobox-title" style="font-size:125%; font-style:italic; padding-bottom:0.2em;">Abolition of Man <span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Abolition+of+Man&rft.author=%5B%5BC.+S.+Lewis%5D%5D&rft.date=1943&rft.pub=%5B%5BOxford+University+Press%5D%5D&rft.place=United+Kingdom"></span></caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:TheAbolitionOfMan.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2e/TheAbolitionOfMan.jpg/220px-TheAbolitionOfMan.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="333" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2e/TheAbolitionOfMan.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="224" data-file-height="339" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">First edition</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Author</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/C._S._Lewis" title="C. 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Lewis</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Language</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Subject</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Value_(ethics)" title="Value (ethics)">Value</a> and <a href="/wiki/Natural_law" title="Natural law">natural law</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publisher</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Oxford_University_Press" title="Oxford University Press">Oxford University Press</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Publication date</div></th><td class="infobox-data">1943</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publication place</th><td class="infobox-data">United Kingdom</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Media type</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Hardcover" title="Hardcover">Hardcover</a> and <a href="/wiki/Paperback" 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href="/wiki/Julian_Savulescu#Procreative_beneficence" title="Julian Savulescu">"Beneficient"</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morphological_freedom" title="Morphological freedom">Emancipatory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evolutionary_mismatch" title="Evolutionary mismatch">Compensatory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transhumanist_politics#Democratic_transhumanism" title="Transhumanist politics">Democratic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Directed_evolution_(transhumanism)" title="Directed evolution (transhumanism)">"Directive"</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transhumanist_politics#Libertarian_transhumanism" title="Transhumanist politics">Libertarian</a></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Stefan_Lorenz_Sorgner#Nietzsche,_posthumanism_and_transhumanism" title="Stefan Lorenz Sorgner">Metahumanistic</a>"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Posthumanism" title="Posthumanism">Posthumanistic</a></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Jason_Jorjani#The_Prometheist_Manifesto" title="Jason Jorjani">Prometheist</a>"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dysgenics" title="Dysgenics">Preventative</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transhumanism" title="Transhumanism">Transhumanistic</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Paradigm</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Biohappiness" title="Biohappiness">Biohappiness</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyborgs" class="mw-redirect" title="Cyborgs">Cyborgs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_eugenics" title="New eugenics">Eugenics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Intelligence_amplification" title="Intelligence amplification">Intelligence amplification</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moral_enhancement" title="Moral enhancement">Moral enhancement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prosthesis#Prosthetic_enhancement" title="Prosthesis">Prostheses</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:transparent; border-top:1px solid #85AFBB; text-align:center;color: var(--color-base)"><span style="font-size:85%;">(<i>De facto</i>)</span> germline interventions</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cloning" title="Cloning"><i>Selective</i> Cloning</a></li> <li>Counseling <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Genetic_counseling" title="Genetic counseling">Genetic </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Genomic_counseling" title="Genomic counseling">Genomic </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pre-conception_counseling" title="Pre-conception counseling">Pre-conception</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Human_genetic_enhancement" title="Human genetic enhancement">Genetic enhancement</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Genetic_engineering" title="Genetic engineering">Genetic engineering</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Epigenome_editing" title="Epigenome editing">Epigenome editing</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Preimplantation_genetic_diagnosis" title="Preimplantation genetic diagnosis">PGD</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Embryo_quality" title="Embryo quality">Embryo quality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oocyte_selection" title="Oocyte selection">Oocyte selection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polygenic_score" title="Polygenic score">Polygenic (risk) score</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(technical article)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prenatal_testing" title="Prenatal testing">Prenatal testing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abortion" title="Abortion"><i>Selective</i> abortion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sex_selection" title="Sex selection">Sex selection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sperm_sorting" title="Sperm sorting">Sperm sorting</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Repository_for_Germinal_Choice" title="Repository for Germinal Choice">"Nobelist sperm banks"</a></li></ul> </div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:transparent; border-top:1px solid #85AFBB; text-align:center;color: var(--color-base)">Somatic 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title="Stimulants">Stimulants</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Amphetamine" title="Amphetamine">Amphetamine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Methamphetamine" title="Methamphetamine">Methamphetamine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ritalin" class="mw-redirect" title="Ritalin">Ritalin</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nootropics" class="mw-redirect" title="Nootropics">Nootropics</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Modafinil" title="Modafinil">Modafinil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Piracetam" title="Piracetam">Piracetam</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Xanthine" title="Xanthine">Xanthine derivatives</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Caffeine" title="Caffeine">Caffeine</a></li></ul></li></ul> <p><b><a href="/wiki/Neuroenhancement" title="Neuroenhancement">Neurological</a></b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Brain_implant" title="Brain implant">Brain implant</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Brain%E2%80%93computer_interface" title="Brain–computer interface">Brain–computer interface</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deep_brain_stimulation#Other_clinical_applications" title="Deep brain stimulation">Deep brain stimulation</a></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Man-Computer_Symbiosis" title="Man-Computer Symbiosis">Man-Computer Symbiosis</a>" <span style="font-size:85%;">(1960)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neuralink" title="Neuralink">Neuralink</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neurohacking" title="Neurohacking">Neurohacking</a></li></ul> </div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:transparent; border-top:1px solid #85AFBB; text-align:center;color: var(--color-base)">Opposition</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Appeal_to_nature" title="Appeal to nature">Appeal to nature</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bioconservatism" title="Bioconservatism">Bioconservatism</a></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Brave_New_World#Common_misunderstandings" title="Brave New World"><i>Brave New World</i> Argument</a>"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/G.K._Chesterton#Opposition_to_eugenics" class="mw-redirect" title="G.K. Chesterton">Chesterton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Fukuyama#Other_works" title="Francis Fukuyama">Francis Fukuyama</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Our_Posthuman_Future" title="Our Posthuman Future">Our Posthuman Future</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(2002)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ethics_of_cloning" title="Ethics of cloning">Cloning prohibition</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leon_Kass" title="Leon Kass">Leon Kass</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stem_cell_controversy" title="Stem cell controversy">Stem cell controversy</a></li></ul></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Designer_baby" title="Designer baby">Designer baby</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Frankenstein%27s_monster" title="Frankenstein's monster">Frankenstein's monster</a>"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/He_Jiankui_affair" title="He Jiankui affair">He Jiankui affair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hwang_affair" title="Hwang affair">Hwang affair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Life_extension#Ethics_and_politics" title="Life extension">Against life extension</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Immortality#Undesirability" title="Immortality">Undesirability of immortality</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nikolas_Kompridis" title="Nikolas Kompridis">Nikolas Kompridis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C.S._Lewis" class="mw-redirect" title="C.S. Lewis">C.S. Lewis</a> <ul><li><i><a class="mw-selflink selflink">The Abolition of Man</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1943)</span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/That_Hideous_Strength" title="That Hideous Strength">That Hideous Strength</a></i> <span style="font-size:85%;">(1945)</span></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Playing_God_(ethics)" title="Playing God (ethics)">"Playing God"</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religious_response_to_assisted_reproductive_technology" title="Religious response to assisted reproductive technology">Religious response to <i>ART</i>s</a></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Wisdom_of_repugnance" title="Wisdom of repugnance">Wisdom of repugnance</a>"</li></ul> </div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:transparent; border-top:1px solid #85AFBB; text-align:center;color: var(--color-base)">Related</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Assisted_reproductive_technology" title="Assisted reproductive technology"><i>ART</i></a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Artificial_womb" title="Artificial womb"><i>Exo</i>wombs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gametogenesis#In_vitro_gametogenesis" title="Gametogenesis"><i>IVG</i></a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Augmented_learning" title="Augmented learning">Augmented learning</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deep_ecology" title="Deep ecology">Deep ecology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Executive_dysfunction#Treatment" title="Executive dysfunction">Treating executive dysfunction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Julian_Huxley#Secular_humanism" title="Julian Huxley"><i>Evolutionary humanism</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Longevity" title="Longevity">Longevity</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anti-aging_movement" title="Anti-aging movement">Anti-aging movement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Life_extension" title="Life extension">Life extension</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rejuvenation" title="Rejuvenation">Rejuvenation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Young_blood_transfusion" title="Young blood transfusion">Young blood transfusion</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Natalism" title="Natalism">Natalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Natura_naturans" class="mw-redirect" title="Natura naturans">Natura naturans</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pontifical_and_Promethean_man" title="Pontifical and Promethean man">Pontifical and Promethean man</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philosophy_of_medicine#Demarcating_therapy" title="Philosophy of medicine">Collapse of the therapy-enhancement divide</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Promethean_gap" title="Promethean gap">Promethean gap</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Technophobia" title="Technophobia">Technophobia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philosophy_of_medicine#Demarcating_therapy" title="Philosophy of medicine">Therapy-enhancement distinction</a></li></ul> </div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-navbar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239400231">.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:inline;font-size:88%;font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .navbar-collapse{float:left;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .navbar-boxtext{word-spacing:0}.mw-parser-output .navbar ul{display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;line-height:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::before{margin-right:-0.125em;content:"[ "}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::after{margin-left:-0.125em;content:" ]"}.mw-parser-output .navbar li{word-spacing:-0.125em}.mw-parser-output .navbar a>span,.mw-parser-output .navbar a>abbr{text-decoration:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-mini abbr{font-variant:small-caps;border-bottom:none;text-decoration:none;cursor:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-full{font-size:114%;margin:0 7em}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-mini{font-size:114%;margin:0 4em}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .navbar li a abbr{color:var(--color-base)!important}@media(prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .navbar li a abbr{color:var(--color-base)!important}}@media print{.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:none!important}}</style><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Human_enhancement_sidebar" title="Template:Human enhancement sidebar"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Human_enhancement_sidebar" title="Template talk:Human enhancement sidebar"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Human_enhancement_sidebar" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Human enhancement sidebar"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>The Abolition of Man</b></i> is a 1943 book by <a href="/wiki/C._S._Lewis" title="C. S. Lewis">C. S. Lewis</a>. Subtitled "Reflections on education with special reference to the teaching of English in the upper <a href="/wiki/Form_(education)" title="Form (education)">forms</a> of schools", it uses a contemporary text about poetry as a starting point for a defense of objective <a href="/wiki/Value_theory" title="Value theory">value</a> and <a href="/wiki/Natural_law" title="Natural law">natural law</a>. Lewis goes on to warn readers about the consequences of doing away with ideas of objective value. It defends "man's power over nature" as something worth pursuing but criticizes the use of it to debunk values, the value of science itself being among them. The title of the book then, is taken to mean that <a href="/wiki/Moral_relativism" title="Moral relativism">moral relativism</a> threatens the idea of humanity itself. The book was first delivered as a series of three evening lectures at <a href="/wiki/King%27s_College,_Newcastle" class="mw-redirect" title="King's College, Newcastle">King's College, Newcastle</a>, part of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Durham" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Durham">University of Durham</a>, as the Riddell Memorial Lectures on 24–26 February 1943. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Moral_subjectivism_vs._natural_law">Moral subjectivism vs. natural law</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Abolition_of_Man&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Moral subjectivism vs. natural law"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Lewis begins with a critical response to "The Green Book" by "Gaius and Titius": <i>The Control of Language: A Critical Approach to Reading and Writing</i>, published in 1939 by Alexander ("Alec") King and Martin Ketley.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>The Green Book</i> was used as a text for upper <a href="/wiki/Form_(education)" title="Form (education)">form</a> students in British schools.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lewis criticises the authors for subverting student values and claims that they teach that all statements of value (such as "this waterfall is sublime") are merely statements about the speaker's feelings and say nothing about the object.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Such a view, Lewis argues, makes nonsense of value talk. It implies, for example, that a speaker who condemns some act as contemptible is really only saying, "I have contemptible feelings."<sup id="cite_ref-Lewis,_p._15_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lewis,_p._15-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By denying that values are real or that sentiments can be reasonable, <a href="/wiki/Subjectivism" title="Subjectivism">subjectivism</a> saps moral motivation<sup id="cite_ref-Lewis,_p._15_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lewis,_p._15-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and robs people of the ability to respond emotionally to experiences of real goodness and real beauty in literature and in the world.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Moreover, Lewis claims that it is impossible to be a consistent moral subjectivist. Even the authors of <i>The Green Book</i> clearly believe that some things, such as improved student learning, are truly good and desirable.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lewis cites ancient thinkers such as <a href="/wiki/Plato" title="Plato">Plato</a>, <a href="/wiki/Aristotle" title="Aristotle">Aristotle</a> and <a href="/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo" title="Augustine of Hippo">St. Augustine</a>, who believed that the purpose of education was to train children in "ordinate affections", to train them to like and dislike what they ought and to love the good and hate the bad. Lewis claims that although such values are universal, they do not develop automatically or inevitably in children. Thus, they are not "natural" in that sense of the word, but they must be taught through education. Those who lack them lack the specifically human element, the trunk that unites intellectual man with visceral (animal) man, and they may be called "men without chests". </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Men_without_chests:_a_dystopian_future">Men without chests: a dystopian future</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Abolition_of_Man&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Men without chests: a dystopian future"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Lewis criticizes modern attempts to debunk natural values, such as those that would deny objective value to the waterfall, on rational grounds. He says that there is a set of objective values that have been shared, with minor differences, by every culture, which he refers to as "the traditional moralities of East and West, the Christian, the Pagan, and the Jew...". Lewis calls that the <i><a href="/wiki/Tao" title="Tao">Tao</a></i>, from the <a href="/wiki/Taoist" class="mw-redirect" title="Taoist">Taoist</a> word for the ultimate "way" or "path" of reality and human conduct. (Although Lewis saw natural law as <a href="/wiki/Supernatural" title="Supernatural">supernatural</a> in origin, as evidenced by his use of it as a proof of <a href="/wiki/Theism" title="Theism">theism</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Mere_Christianity" title="Mere Christianity">Mere Christianity</a></i>, his argument in the book does not rest on theism.) </p><p>Without the <i>Tao</i>, no value judgments can be made at all, and modern attempts to do away with some parts of traditional morality for some "rational" reason always proceed by arbitrarily selecting one part of the <i>Tao</i> and using it as grounds to debunk the others. </p><p>The final chapter describes the ultimate consequences of this debunking: a not-so distant future in which the values and morals of the majority are controlled by a small group who rule by a perfect understanding of <a href="/wiki/Psychology" title="Psychology">psychology</a>, and who in turn, being able to see through any system of morality that might induce them to act in a certain way, are ruled only by their own unreflected whims. In surrendering rational reflection on their own motivations, the controllers will no longer be recognizably human, the controlled will be robot-like, and the Abolition of Man will have been completed. </p><p>An appendix to <i>The Abolition of Man</i> lists a number of basic values seen by Lewis as parts of the <i>Tao</i>, supported by quotations from different cultures. The <a href="/wiki/Dystopian" class="mw-redirect" title="Dystopian">dystopian</a> ideas in <i>Abolition of Man</i> is fleshed out in Lewis's science fiction novel, <i><a href="/wiki/That_Hideous_Strength" title="That Hideous Strength">That Hideous Strength</a>,</i> as Lewis himself makes clear in the preface of the story.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Impact_amongst_public_intellectuals">Impact amongst public intellectuals</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Abolition_of_Man&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Impact amongst public intellectuals"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>While the book was considered a favourite of the author, Lewis believed it was "almost totally ignored by the public."<sup id="cite_ref-:0_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By the 21st Century that was no longer true, at least amongst intellectuals, both Christian and non-Christian.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Jonah_Goldberg" title="Jonah Goldberg">Jonah Goldberg</a> has assessed it to be "one of the greatest books" of its era as it is helping preserve ideas of <a href="/wiki/Moral_absolutism" title="Moral absolutism">moral absolutism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Catholic Bishop, <a href="/wiki/Robert_Barron" title="Robert Barron">Robert Barron</a>, considers the book almost prophetic on the topic of "values", such that today they accepted as being "projections of our feelings and subjective whims, and consequently, anyone who dares to speak of properly objective truth or objective moral value is engaging in an oppressive play of power."<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Carl_Trueman" title="Carl Trueman">Carl Trueman</a> has argued that the collection of essays is strongly relevant to today as "the turmoil in our contemporary Western world is a function of the collapse of consensus concerning what it means to be human... a time marked by a crisis of anthropology."<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Commentating on the book's more political elements, <a href="/wiki/Michael_Ward_(scholar)" title="Michael Ward (scholar)">Michael Ward</a> argues that Lewis's essay is an early warning that democracies are vulnerable to "the dangers of subjectivism."<sup id="cite_ref-:2_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ward writes that “Democracies can only be preserved...if they view ethical systems in an undemocratic light.” Expanding upon this, Samuel Gregg, speculates that Lewis's indirect critique of democracy may have unsettled readers immediately after its publication, given the political climate of World War II and the immediate threat of authoritarian dictatorships. In time, however, similar observations were shared and developed by both equivalent and later thinkers such as <a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_R%C3%B6pke" title="Wilhelm Röpke">Wilhelm Röpke</a>, Cardinal <a href="/wiki/Jean-Marie_Lustiger" title="Jean-Marie Lustiger">Jean-Marie Lustiger</a> and Rabbi <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Sacks" class="mw-redirect" title="Jonathan Sacks">Jonathan Sacks</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lewis's concept of "the Tao" has become understood as a shorthand of <a href="/wiki/Natural_law" title="Natural law">Natural law</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As such, his essay is now regarded as both key to the revival of this idea of natural law, and a strong counterpoint to ethics of <a href="/wiki/Karl_Barth" title="Karl Barth">Karl Barth</a>, where morality depends on <a href="/wiki/Special_revelation" title="Special revelation">Special revelation</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some legal minds have come to see Lewis's essay as bolstering the Calvinist understanding of Natural Law, as being transcendent in nature.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Ross_Douthat" title="Ross Douthat">Ross Douthat</a> has written about the books ideas many times in <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>, listing it as one of the books he would assign to all college students, especially as they critique the threats of modern technology.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The philosopher <a href="/wiki/Peter_Kreeft" title="Peter Kreeft">Peter Kreeft</a> shared this view, including it as one of six "books to read to save Western Civilization," alongside <i><a href="/wiki/Lost_in_the_Cosmos" title="Lost in the Cosmos">Lost in the Cosmos</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Walker_Percy" title="Walker Percy">Walker Percy</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Mere_Christianity" title="Mere Christianity">Mere Christianity</a></i> by C. S. Lewis, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Everlasting_Man" title="The Everlasting Man">The Everlasting Man</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/G._K._Chesterton" title="G. K. Chesterton">G. K. Chesterton</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Orthodoxy_(book)" title="Orthodoxy (book)">Orthodoxy</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/G._K._Chesterton" title="G. K. Chesterton">G. K. Chesterton</a>, and <i><a href="/wiki/Brave_New_World" title="Brave New World">Brave New World</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Aldous_Huxley" title="Aldous Huxley">Aldous Huxley</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Passages from <i>The Abolition of Man</i> are included in <a href="/wiki/William_Bennett" title="William Bennett">William Bennett</a>'s 1993 book <i><a href="/wiki/The_Book_of_Virtues" title="The Book of Virtues">The Book of Virtues</a>.</i><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, as historian Paul E Michelson points out, many intellectuals have been prompted by Lewis's work to argue directly against him. This includes <a href="/wiki/B._F._Skinner" title="B. F. Skinner">B. F. Skinner</a> in his work <i><a href="/wiki/Beyond_Freedom_and_Dignity" title="Beyond Freedom and Dignity">Beyond Freedom and Dignity</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Skinner asserts that in his <a href="/wiki/Behaviorism" title="Behaviorism">Behaviorist</a> school of psychology, contra Lewis, "Man is being abolished.. What is being abolished is autonomous man... the man defended by the literatures of freedom and dignity."<sup id="cite_ref-:0_7-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Modern_rankings_and_reviews">Modern rankings and reviews</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Abolition_of_Man&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Modern rankings and reviews"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/National_Review" title="National Review">National Review</a></i> ranked the book #7 in its 100 Best Non-Fiction Books of the 20th Century list.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The conservative <a href="/wiki/Intercollegiate_Studies_Institute" title="Intercollegiate Studies Institute">Intercollegiate Studies Institute</a> ranked the book as the second best book of the 20th century.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_popular_culture">In popular culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Abolition_of_Man&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: In popular culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sarek_in_profile.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Sarek_in_profile.jpg/220px-Sarek_in_profile.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="286" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Sarek_in_profile.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="298" data-file-height="387" /></a><figcaption>Vulcan characteristics are said to be based on the book</figcaption></figure> <p>A 2019 journal article, <i>Science Fiction and the Abolition of Man</i> argued that many science fiction characters have drawn on the idea of "men without chests", including the logical Vulcans of <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Trek" title="Star Trek">Star Trek</a></i> to the "emotionally stunted" replicants in <i><a href="/wiki/Blade_Runner" title="Blade Runner">Blade Runner</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2022 artist Carson Grubaugh created a comic book adaptation, “Abolition of Man,” using illustrations generated by artificial intelligence. The text of Lewis' work serves as definitional prompts for the AI's images.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Many ideas in Lewis' book have also appeared in music, including: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Christian_hip_hop" title="Christian hip hop">Christian hip hop</a> duo <a href="/wiki/Mars_ILL" class="mw-redirect" title="Mars ILL">Mars ILL</a> named the track "The Abolition of manCHILD" from their 2002 album <i><a href="/wiki/Raw_Material_(album)" title="Raw Material (album)">Raw Material</a></i> after the book.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In 2003, the <a href="/wiki/Post-hardcore" title="Post-hardcore">post-hardcore</a> band <a href="/wiki/Thrice" title="Thrice">Thrice</a> based the lyrics of the song "The Abolition of Man" on the book. It is featured in the band's third album, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Artist_in_the_Ambulance" title="The Artist in the Ambulance">The Artist in the Ambulance</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>TAO</i>, the sixth studio album of Canadian rapper <a href="/wiki/Shad_(rapper)" title="Shad (rapper)">Shad</a>, released in 2021 was heavily inspired by <i>The Abolition of Man</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Abolition_of_Man&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Foumilog&rft.place=CH&rft.pub=Fourmi+lab&rft.date=2007-05&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fourmilab.ch%2Ffourmilog%2Farchives%2F2007-05%2F000835.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Abolition+of+Man" class="Z3988"></span>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs2"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://brothersjudd.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/reviews.detail/book_id/242/"><i>Fuse action</i></a> (review), Brothers Judd</cite><span 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S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man. New York: Macmillan, 1947, pp. 14, 30. Note, some argue the "associationist" theory of meaning King and Ketley defend in the book (borrowed largely from C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards' influential book,<i>The Meaning of Meaning</i> (1923)), does not claim that all value statements refer solely to the speaker's feelings. 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Leiden: Brill/Rodopi, 2015.</li> <li>Jean Beth Elshtain, "<i>The Abolition of Man</i>: C. S. Lewis's Prescience Concerning Things to Come." In David Baggett, Gary R. Habermas, and Jerry L. Walls, eds., C. S. Lewis as Philosopher. Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 2008: 85–95.</li> <li>C. S. Lewis, "The Poison of Subjectivism." In <i>C. S. Lewis, The Seeing Eye and Other Selected Essays from</i> Christian Reflections. Edited by Walter Hooper. New York: Ballantine Books, 1986: 99–112.</li> <li>Gilbert Meilaender, "On Moral Knowledge." In Robert MacSwain and Michael Ward, eds. <i>The Cambridge Companion to C. S. Lewis</i>. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010: 119–31.</li> <li>Timothy M. Moesteller and Gayne John Anacker, eds., <i>Contemporary Perspectives on C. S. Lewis's</i> The Abolition of Man: <i>History, Philosophy, Education, and Science</i>. London: Bloomsbury, 2017.</li> <li>Ward, Michael. <i>After Humanity: A Guide to C.S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man Kindle Edition</i>. Word on Fire Academic, 2021.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Abolition_of_Man&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20150135"><i>The Abolition of Man</i></a> at <a href="/wiki/Distributed_Proofreaders_Canada" title="Distributed Proofreaders Canada">Faded Page</a> (Canada)</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation cs2"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/TheAbolitionOfMan_229"><i>The Abolition of Man</i></a> (full text), Columbia University</cite><span 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Lewis bibliography">Bibliography</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Poetry</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Spirits_in_Bondage" title="Spirits in Bondage">Spirits in Bondage</a></i> (1919)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Reason_(poem)" title="Reason (poem)">Reason</a>" (c. 1925)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dymer_(poem)" title="Dymer (poem)">Dymer</a></i> (1926)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Fiction</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Pilgrim%27s_Regress" title="The Pilgrim's Regress">The Pilgrim's Regress</a></i> (1933)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Screwtape_Letters" title="The Screwtape Letters">The Screwtape Letters</a></i> (1942)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Great_Divorce" title="The Great Divorce">The Great Divorce</a></i> (1945)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Till_We_Have_Faces" title="Till We Have Faces">Till We Have Faces</a></i> (1956)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Screwtape_Proposes_a_Toast" class="mw-redirect" title="Screwtape Proposes a Toast">Screwtape Proposes a Toast</a>" (1959)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Letters_to_Malcolm" title="Letters to Malcolm">Letters to Malcolm</a></i> (1964)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Boxen_(C._S._Lewis)" title="Boxen (C. 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