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Mark J. Boone and Kevin C. Neece (eds), Science Fiction and the Abolition of Man: Finding C.S. Lewis in Sci-Fi Film and Television

Mark J. Boone and Kevin C. Neece (eds), Science Fiction and the Abolition of Man: Finding C.S.... Book Reviews Mark J. Boone and Kevin C. Neece (eds), Science Fiction and the Abolition of Man: Finding C.S. Lewis in Sci-Fi Film and Television. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2017. xxi + 356 pp. ISBN: 978-1-4982-3236-4. In The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis examines an ordinary composition textbook and finds a set of troubling symptoms in its authors’ attempts to teach students to understand value judgments. He then offers a diagnosis of the underlying disease: the authors, along with much of the academic culture they inhabit, have been infected with subjectivism. What Lewis has in mind by ‘subjectivism’ is nicely encapsulated in the following: ‘firstly, that all sentences containing a predicate of value are statements about the emotional state of the speaker, and secondly, that all such statements are unimportant’. Although the symptoms (e.g., worries over what precisely one means in characterizing a waterfall) may seem rather innocuous, the disease itself is absolutely poisonous. Lewis goes on to provide a prognosis of what may happen if this disease is allowed to spread. Without a commitment to objective moral law (the Tao) and the robust virtues of character it makes possible, society will be governed wholly by its whims and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Inklings Studies Edinburgh University Press

Mark J. Boone and Kevin C. Neece (eds), Science Fiction and the Abolition of Man: Finding C.S. Lewis in Sci-Fi Film and Television

Jensen, Randall M.
Journal of Inklings Studies , Volume 9 (1): 4 – Apr 1, 2019
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Book Reviews Mark J. Boone and Kevin C. Neece (eds), Science Fiction and the Abolition of Man: Finding C.S. Lewis in Sci-Fi Film and Television. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2017. xxi + 356 pp. ISBN: 978-1-4982-3236-4. In The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis examines an ordinary composition textbook and finds a set of troubling symptoms in its authors’ attempts to teach students to understand value judgments. He then offers a diagnosis of the underlying disease: the authors, along with much of the academic culture they inhabit, have been infected with subjectivism. What Lewis has in mind by ‘subjectivism’ is nicely encapsulated in the following: ‘firstly, that all sentences containing a predicate of value are statements about the emotional state of the speaker, and secondly, that all such statements are unimportant’. Although the symptoms (e.g., worries over what precisely one means in characterizing a waterfall) may seem rather innocuous, the disease itself is absolutely poisonous. Lewis goes on to provide a prognosis of what may happen if this disease is allowed to spread. Without a commitment to objective moral law (the Tao) and the robust virtues of character it makes possible, society will be governed wholly by its whims and

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