Jeremiah Lorrig's Reviews > The Abolition of Man

Lewis is a genius. He attacks head on the idea that humans can either be all reason or all emotion. He makes a strong case that the head and the appetite both are inadequate for making good choices in life. Those faculties must be used and connected to each other by something that creates value and makes life beautiful.

It has been called one of the most important books of this era and implied that this book might be needed to save civilization. While it is a brilliant defense of the Tao or truth/beauty as existent and findable things, I’m afraid that most people would find the denseness to be beyond their attention spans. It is not long and the core is quite neatly centered around the core concept of foundational truths, but—maybe mercifully so—most people will never even ask these questions that he answers. I will read this again.