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Loading... The Abolition of Manby C. S. Lewis
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Plain and obvious truth. And like most plain and obvious truth, man has an enormous talent to hand-wave it away. (  ) DeeDeeWarren | Jul 13, 2009 |  KyleDeming | Nov 10, 2008 | I didn't think it was an easy read. But the main point was drove home in the last lecture when he said, "You cannot go on seeing through things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. . . . If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To see through all things is the same as not to see.” The whole point about seeing something is because there is an object that can be seen. If everything is all relative, that very statement itself is a belief. By that statement, you are "seeing" something. Even an atheist believes in "there is no god." (  ) lt999 | Nov 5, 2008 | I am constantly amazed at how our society continually ignores the so-obvious truth. Lewis clearly addresses the modern problem. Perhaps the problem isn't unique to these times but, certainly, our way is different than any time before us. Past societies recognized sin and selfishness and regretted them. We recognize sin and selfishness and embrace them. (Contrary to what some may say, we don't ignore them. Instead, we rejoice in them.) ( ) djsparks | May 13, 2008 | I bought this with a first-aid purchase. Do people really need to be reading this? I remind myself that 3 advanced nations have experienced major terrorist attacks in the past 4 years and New Orleans is now underwater from a natural disaster. This is a handy reference that can be tucked away just in case. (  ) jpsnow | Apr 12, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0060652942, Paperback)C.S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man purports to be a book specifically about public education, but its central concerns are broadly political, religious, and philosophical. In the best of the book's three essays, "Men Without Chests," Lewis trains his laser-sharp wit on a mid- century English high school text, considering the ramifications of teaching British students to believe in idle relativism, and to reject "the doctrine of objective value, the belief that certain attitudes are really true, and others really false, to the kind of thing the universe is and the kinds of things we are." Lewis calls this doctrine the "Tao," and he spends much of the book explaining why society needs a sense of objective values. The Abolition of Man speaks with astonishing freshness to contemporary debates about morality; and even if Lewis seems a bit too cranky and privileged for his arguments to be swallowed whole, at least his articulation of values seems less ego-driven, and therefore is more useful, than that of current writers such as Bill Bennett and James Dobson. --Michael Joseph Gross(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:52 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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