The Abolition of Man

Stephen Simmons
AP English 11/Mr. George
10/19/09
Abolition of man

"But once our souls, that is, ourselves, have been given up, the power thus conferred will not belong to us. We shall in fact be the slaves and puppets of that to which we have given our souls"(Lewis 72).

"But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see"(81).

In the third and final section of the text, Lewis describes a world based on subjective values and the abolition of man. If, perhaps, subjectivists triumph, and the to Tao or objective value is diminished someone with overruling power would have to create their own natural law or moral law. What Lewis says is that when everyone truly stops believing in the Tao and give up our souls, we will all become slaves the greater power. Lewis also explains that if we do perhaps change world values and see beyond objectiveness and the world, then the new values or values of life will be of no value. We would simply be Abolishing man.