false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170966673m/79428.jpg 79428 12 C.S. Lewis's <I>The Abolition of Man</I> 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. <I>The Abolition of Man</I> 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. <I>--Michael Joseph Gross</I> 2374630 1943 The Abolition of Man total:1660|5:525|4:587|3:414|2:116|1:18| 1660 6465 2749 152 4 2 false false Thu Feb 28 22:49:13 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 28 22:49:22 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 5 false false Tue Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Thu Apr 19 13:22:46 -0700 2007 Sat Dec 08 23:30:49 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed May 06 20:15:11 -0700 2009 Wed May 06 20:56:53 -0700 2009
In the classical view the head ruled over the passions through chest. The chest represents our heart or affections. The mind was to...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu May 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 15:34:37 -0700 2009 Thu May 07 04:59:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Feb 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 01 15:13:49 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 13 18:46:51 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 16:10:36 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 10:22:48 -0700 2009
My favorite quote: "This thing which I have called for c...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Tue Mar 24 07:24:43 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 07:24:43 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Sun Jul 05 03:49:17 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 05:51:02 -0700 2009 4 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Thu Sep 04 04:14:27 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 04 04:14:27 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Thu Nov 05 16:17:45 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 07:34:19 -0800 2009 Tao. First he explains how society is acting to take moral values away from people and yet expects them to behave as if they still believ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1995 Tue Jan 27 17:39:27 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 09:53:19 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Dec 29 09:08:13 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 30 15:30:23 -0800 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 23 18:36:33 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 23 18:41:55 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu May 08 21:07:54 -0700 2008 Thu May 08 21:08:33 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Oct 24 11:41:48 -0700 2008 Mon Dec 01 10:40:22 -0800 2008
Unfortunately, I am not much in the studying mood so here is what I gleened on the first read-through.

- When a society denies the existance of moral absolute...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jan 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Oct 23 10:49:32 -0700 2008 Sun Jan 25 09:04:07 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Oct 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 21 17:47:14 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 23 19:56:44 -0700 2008
I've already used principles from this in the therapy that I do for a living. I find it particularly useful to illustrate some of the more subtle reasons why certain behavior...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat May 31 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 15 11:30:38 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 15 11:34:44 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jun 24 18:03:11 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 24 19:09:56 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Apr 08 11:54:07 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 28 08:27:14 -0700 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=79428