C. S. Lewis' book, The Abolition of Man, is a powerful critique of certain dehumanizing secular philosophies that were being taught to school children. The cultural milieu that Lewis was responding to, however, did not arise out of a vacuum. On today's edition of the AC Podcast, Andy and Steve invited historian Dr. Richard Weikart to learn about how these dehumanizing philosophies developed over the centuries and how they manifested in society.
Devolving?: How We Lost Our Humanity
Links & Articles
C.S. Lewis and the Death of Humanity, or Heeding C.S. Lewis's Warnings against Dehumanizing Idealogies by Richard Weikart
Whatever Happened to Human Rights?: Morality and C. S. Lewis’s Abolition of Man by Richard Weikart
Dr. Weikart's books
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