Make Your Own Morality?

C. S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man

Clive Staples (C. S.) Lewis (1898–1963), the bookish and book-writing Oxford don, is known for myriad literary achievements, both academic and popular, both fiction and nonfiction. I have been reading and re-reading his many books for nearly fifty years and have seen during this time a steady stream of books about nearly every aspect of his work and life. (I await C. S. Lewis and his Dogs, however.) For thirty years, I taught a course on the philosophy of C. S. Lewis, which kept me absorbed in his thinking consistently year after year (although I was immersed in it previously). Lewis never gets old and will be read a...