The Abolition of Sanity Quotes

“Lewis is basically arguing that in a world governed by manipulation, control, domination, there must arise by definition two classes of people: manipulators and manipulatees, or conditioners and the conditioned as he calls them. There will be those who have the technical competencies for control over nature, and then there will be the supposed beneficiaries of such competencies who, being mere products of nature, are nevertheless vulnerable to becoming objects of that control.”
― Steve Turley, The Abolition of Sanity: C.S. Lewis on the Consequences of Modernism

“Lewis’ solution is for us to re-embrace the Tao, the doctrine of objective values as the only source for our true humanity. Scientific man who believes he has evolved beyond our infantile past has been served a summons by Lewis: become once again as little children, born anew.”
― Steve Turley, The Abolition of Sanity: C.S. Lewis on the Consequences of Modernism

“dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.”
― Steve Turley, The Abolition of Sanity: C.S. Lewis on the Consequences of Modernism

“Natural law theory recognizes that to be human means that we are endowed with a moral conscience which knows innately the moral order of the universe as God has created it.”
― Steve Turley, The Abolition of Sanity: C.S. Lewis on the Consequences of Modernism