Abstract
Readers of The Abolition of Man, certainly those who have engaged it repeatedly and have thought deeply about what it says, recognize that the book is fundamentally a commentary on the reality—and predictable consequences—of the miseducation of the young. Much has been written on this topic. Not so commonly recognized, nor as frequently understood, is the positive educational program that arises out of Lewis’s largely critical “reflections on education.”2 The Abolition of Man, like its fictional counterpart, That Hideous Strength, elaborates a nightmare scenario. That scenario is the product of what, logically, is a reduction and absurdum. The details of that logic as well as its disturbing dénouement, are outlined in detail elsewhere.3 Let us here dwell on what, for Lewis, must be done to avoid this moral disaster and the intellectual error from which it is derived.
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Jon Fennell
(2024)
"The Positive Educational Program of The Abolition of Man,"
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal: Vol. 18
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.55221/1940-5537.1464
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