ABSTRACT
C. S. Lewis launched a concise, well-conceived attack on moral relativism, identifying its effects on the individual, on society, and on nature. The radio, he argued, can be used as a means of spreading propaganda; the airplane most benefits the wealthy and powerful who can afford it; and the pill allows for the potentially coercive suppression of unborn children. Lewis was a famous and accessible public speaker and he put his views across vividly and convincingly. C. S. Lewis's forceful attack on moral relativism and naturalism was in many ways a product of its time-the text was written in war-torn Britain-and some of its themes no longer seem relevant today. He concerns that people in a society governed according to the principles of scientific reductionism will "come to be motivated simply by their own pleasure" continues to be relevant in the modern context of capitalism and the global consumer society.
