“We make men without hearts and expect virtue and boldness from them. We mock love and are shocked to find traitors among us. »
CS Lewis
The three chapters that make up The Abolition of Man lead us into a demonstration whose intensity increases.
Alerted by an unfortunate expression that he found in a school textbook, CS Lewis subjected it to analysis and he detected a vision of the world which denied any objective value.
This study leads him to unmask the sinister consequences of a rejection of all morality and it ends with the apocalyptic description of the moment when man will make himself the subject of his own manipulations.
The warning that Lewis issues to us has not aged a bit: by trying to free ourselves from all value, by refusing to submit our scientific discoveries to universal moral standards, we tend ever more to abolish the human in what we it is unique and sacred.
ISBN: 9782884170246