After Humanity (Lewis/Ward)

Author: Michael Ward

File under: Lewis

ISBN: 9781943243778

Binding: hardcover

Section: Christianity-General

Subtitle: A Guide to C. S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man

After Humanity is a guide to one of C.S. Lewis’s most widely admired but least accessible works, The Abolition of Man, which originated as a series of lectures on ethics that he delivered during the Second World War, tackling the thorny question of whether moral value is objective or not. When we say something is right or wrong, are we recognizing a reality outside ourselves, or merely reporting a subjective sentiment? Lewis addresses the matter from a purely philosophical standpoint, making a powerful case against subjectivism, issuing an intellectual warning that, in our “post-truth” twenty-first century, has even more relevance than when he originally presented it.