ABSTRACT
The Abolition of Man is an engaging, spirited defense of the traditional morality found across religions and in philosophy and poetry. Clive Staples Lewis, known as "Jack" by friends and family, was born in Northern Ireland in the city of Belfast. He began his academic career at Oxford in 1924, as a fellow of Magdalen College, and remained in Oxford as a lecturer and tutor in English until 1954. At Oxford, Lewis had the support and friendship of the literary group known as the Inklings. In the text, Lewis takes issue with the practice of teaching school children that value is a matter of personal attitudes, or subjective ideas. A number of social factors frustrated Lewis and motivated his writing. He begins by discussing how English was being taught in senior schools at the time. He goes on to question the recently developed contraceptive pill, dismissing it as a form of technology that enables one generation to control the next.
