ABSTRACT
Clive Staples Lewis, the author of The Abolition of Man, was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, to a family of Protestant Christians. In 1923 Lewis graduated from the University of Oxford with a first-class degree in English, Greek, and Latin literature, as well as classical literature and philosophy. He became a fellow of Magdalen College in 1924, and remained in Oxford as a lecturer and tutor in English until 1954, when he obtained a position at Cambridge University. In The Abolition of Man, Lewis argues against the idea that no set of beliefs is better than any other and also against the theory of emotivism. For Lewis, morals and value judgments have a universal, unchanging, and objective source. Lewis originally prepared the text of The Abolition of Man as his script for the 1942 Riddell Memorial Lectures at the University of Durham.
