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The Abolition of Man & The Great Divorce

by C. S. Lewis

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Here are two classics of moral philosophy from one of the most revered Christian voices of our time.

In The Abolition of Man, Lewis reflects on society and nature and the challenges of how best to educate our children. He describes what public education should be and how far from this standard modern education has fallen. Lewis eloquently argues that we need as a society to underpin reading and writing lessons with moral education.

In The Great Divorce, Lewis presents his vision of the Afterworld. A fictional narrator boards a bus on a drizzly English afternoon and embarks on an incredible voyage through Heaven and Hell. He meets a host of supernatural beings and comes to some significant realizations about the nature of good and evil.

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This was a rather odd pairing of CS Lewis books — one, a fairly literary and entertaining description of heaven and hell, and the other, a reasonably well argued but dry/boring argument about morality. The Divorce is worth reading even if you don’t care either way about the argument, merely for the quality of description. ( )
  octal | Jan 1, 2021 |
I would recommend the Great Divorce to anyone. It's sort of a Pilgram's Progress in the afterlife. 5 stars

The Abolition of Man is a little hard getting through and it argues against a philosophy that is no longer popular, but the debate is still valid. 3 stars ( )
  Darrell.Newton | Dec 27, 2017 |
This rating and review are for The Abolition of Man. I have already rated The Great Divorce.The Abolition of Man contains excellent arguments against relativism, for ultimate truth and morality. Three stars for enjoyment, four stars for value of argument. ( )
  davegregg | May 3, 2011 |
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Religion & Spirituality. Nonfiction. HTML:

Here are two classics of moral philosophy from one of the most revered Christian voices of our time.

In The Abolition of Man, Lewis reflects on society and nature and the challenges of how best to educate our children. He describes what public education should be and how far from this standard modern education has fallen. Lewis eloquently argues that we need as a society to underpin reading and writing lessons with moral education.

In The Great Divorce, Lewis presents his vision of the Afterworld. A fictional narrator boards a bus on a drizzly English afternoon and embarks on an incredible voyage through Heaven and Hell. He meets a host of supernatural beings and comes to some significant realizations about the nature of good and evil.

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