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	Veljko Korac : On Humanism (1965)
		Where other socialistic theories failed to examine the causes underlying man's alienation from man and from human society, Marx's theory, based on a new concept of man, proposed to investigate the phenomenon of contemporary class society as the basic condition of praxis.
		Their essential content is that man creating himself through the social-historical process becomes only potentially more human because his way of life under the prevailing conditions of division of labor and class antagonism permits his humanity to manifest and confirm itself only partially.
		Man's and humanity's advancement become an adjunct of the advancement of an entity which stands above man, and which can be "society," "the state," "technology," etc. In any case, individual man is increasingly deprived of his personality while mankind as a "greater" goal of history is increasingly emphasized.
	www.panarchy.org /korac/humanism.1965.html (1892 words)

	The Abolition of Man: Peter S. Williams
		Man’s final conquest has proved to be the abolition of Man...
		The Abolition of Man with a discussion of beauty because beauty was the subject of the reductionistic habit exhibited in a book ostensibly intended to teach English rather than axiology (the theory of value).
		Man is created in God’s image, and therefore shares in some of God’s sanctity, which entitles human beings to a higher level of respect than the rest of natural creation.
	www.arn.org /docs/williams/pw_abolitionofman.htm (10304 words)

	Instruction on Christian Freedom and Liberation
		Man's moral conscience is under an obligation to be open to the fullness of truth; he must seek it out and readily accept it when it presents itself to him.
		Man's history unfolds on the basis of the nature which he has received from God and in the free accomplishment of the purpose toward which the inclinations of this nature and of divine grace orient and direct him.
		Man belongs to different communities: the family and professional and political communities, and it is inside these communities that he must exercise his responsible freedom.
	www.vatican.va /roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_19860322_freedom-liberation_en.html (14748 words)

	The Abolition of Man
		Man's conquest of Nature, if the dreams of some scientific planners are realized, means the rule of a few hundreds of men over billions upon billions of men.
		In the older systems both the kind of man the teachers wished to produce and their motives for producing him were prescribed by the Tao—a norm to which the teachers themselves were subject and from which they claimed no liberty to depart.
		Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man. Every victory we seemed to win has led us, step by step, to this conclusion.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/augustine/arch/lewis/abolition3.htm (5514 words)

	Psychology and the Abolition of Meaning
		It is of course a commonplace nowadays to observe that we are living in the era of "psychological man." By this we mean that psychology in one of its various incarnations — psychoanalysis and psychiatry included — has become the primary means whereby we try to understand the meaning and purpose of our existence.
		Unwittingly, and unacknowledged, the scientific study of man thus aims ultimately at his abolition as man — as free agent — and his reconstruction as mechanism.
		While this certainly wounds man's pride, it does more than that: it demonstrates that the object of his deepest longings is utterly illusory, and hence his longings are utterly unfulfillable.
	www.catholiceducation.org /links/jump.cgi?ID=4308 (3271 words)

	Abolition of Man -- Chapter 3
		In the cases of the aeroplane and the radio, man is as much the patient as the possessor.
		The contraceptive deceives man into thinking he has conquered nature, when in fact the result is men powering over other men using Nature as their instrument.
		And interestingly asside from the conclusion we felt that the position held by the conditioned was presented as one of greater power as opposed to that held by the conditioners.
	www.bethel.edu /~gossett/ges329k/abolition-chapter3.html (881 words)

	Psychology and the Abolition of Meaning
		It is of course a commonplace nowadays to observe that we are living in the era of "psychological man." By this we mean that psychology in one of its various incarnations-psychoanalysis and psychiatry included-has become the primary means whereby we try to understand the meaning and purpose of our existence.
		Unwittingly, and unacknowledged, the scientific study of man thus aims ultimately at his abolition as man-as free agent-and his reconstruction as mechanism.
		While this certainly wounds man's pride, it does more than that: it demonstrates that the object of his deepest longings is utterly illusory, and hence his longings are utterly unfulfillable.
	www.leaderu.com /ftissues/ft9402/articles/satin.html (2934 words)

	The Abolition of Man: Shades of Platonic Thought
		The Abolition of Man posited and implied that there is only one valid route, that of Nature and The Way, one which is much less dogmatic and more elusive than Communism or Fascism, but with much more certain and eternal implications.
		This phrase is used sarcastically, as Lewis believes that this emerging philosophy, greeted by many as a new level of freedom or abolition from older values, is actually the quintessential form of enslavement and delusion.
		Gaius and Titius comment as follows: 'When the man said that is sublime he appeared to be making a remark about the waterfall....Actually....he was not making a remark about the waterfall, but about his own feelings'...They add, 'This confusion is is continually present in laguage as we use it.
	personal.lig.bellsouth.net /t/a/tarabyl/abolit.htm (922 words)

	The Abolition of Man: Reflections on Reductionism with Special Reference to Eugenics, by Peter S. Williams: C.S. Lewis ...
		C.S. Lewis’ The Abolition of Man (first published in 1943) is one of the most prescient books of the twentieth century, ranking alongside Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World in its continuing relevance to life in the twenty-first century.
		This is what Lewis means by “that great movement of internalisation and that consequent aggrandisement of man and dissection of the outer universe...”[viii] However, said Lewis, the habit of reductionism doesn’t stop with the outer universe: “The same method which emptied the world now proceeds to empty ourselves.
		No doubt Lewis began The Abolition of Man with a discussion of beauty because beauty was the subject of the reductionistic habit exhibited in a book ostensibly intended to teach English rather than axiology (the theory of value).
	www.lewissociety.org /abolition.php (8943 words)

	Abolition of Man (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The final essay is entitled “The Abolition of Man,” a title perfect for the conclusion of this book because it reveals the ultimate end if we succumb to subjectivism.
		In both Abolition of Man and “Antigone,” the power of subjective law is always less powerful than the authority of the Tao.
		The abolition of man provides a clear warning to readers that we, as educated people and consumers of future “Green Books,” should heed carefully.
	www.soloved.org /eng/Abolition.htm (934 words)

	The Abolition of Man \| jakob's blog
		The Abolition of Man is the title of a little book by C.S. Lewis.
		Man’s life on this earth would come about as close to the idea of hell as anything on this earth may [...] This, not material destruction,would mean the end of Mankind” (p.
		Although his book The Abolition of Man is perhaps the greatest work on natural law in the twentieth century, most scholars of natural law have never heard of it, and quite a few people who do read it mistakenly suppose that he endorsed the Eastern philosophy of Taoism.
	jaksm.dk /2007/10/26/the-abolition-of-man (471 words)

	Psychology and the Abolition of Meaning (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It is of course a commonplace nowadays to observe that we are living in the era of "psychological man." By this we mean that psychology in one of its various incarnations-psychoanalysis and psychiatry included-has become the primary means whereby we try to understand the meaning and purpose of our existence.
		Unwittingly, and unacknowledged, the scientific study of man thus aims ultimately at his abolition as man-as free agent-and his reconstruction as mechanism.
		From the perspective of a classical, antireligious form of psychoanalysis, the faith that guides men in their moral choices is not only a fable, but a neurosis.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft9402/articles/satin.html (2934 words)

	Abolition_Man
		What we call Man's power is, in reality, a power possessed by some men which they may, or may not, allow men to profit by (68).
		For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means, as we have seen, the power of some men to make other men what they please (72).
		Either we are rational spirit obliged for ever to obey the absolute values of the Tao, or else we are mere nature to be kneaded and cut into new shapes for the pleasures of masters who must, by hypothesis, have no motive but their own 'natural' impulses (84).
	www.covopc.org /Lewis/Abolition_Man.html (3135 words)

	Abolition: The African-American Mosaic (Library of Congress Exhibition)
		Abolition >> Prominent Abolitionists -- Abolition and Slavery
		Although excellent studies of the abolition movement exist, further research in the Library's manuscripts could document the lesser known individuals who formed the movement's core.
		On January 1, 1794, delegates from the abolition societies of Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland met in Philadelphia, a stronghold of the anti-slavery Quaker religion.
	www.loc.gov /exhibits/african/afam005.html (1558 words)

	Is Man A Myth?
		R. Lewis's friend J. Tolkien fought the abolition of Man not only by writing a very unbovine history of Middle Earth, but also by thinking profoundly about the nature and significance of certain kinds of stories that our strange species keeps coming back to.
		Man is not wholly lost nor wholly changed.
		So the one vantage point from which our whole strange and unbovine history makes sense is also the one place where Myth and History are one: the spot where, in the light of the rising sun, the shadow of a Cross points to the open door of an Empty Tomb.
	www.christians.org /manmyth/man04.html (696 words)

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		In any case, they are presently promoting the kind of agenda that Lewis, in his own day, believed would lead not only to the destruction of society and the abolition of man, but also to the damnation of the human soul.
		Lewis’s thoughts about teaching and learning are scattered here and there in a variety of his writings, the first chapter of The Abolition of Man is particularly important to understanding his overall philosophy of education and pedagogy.
		Here his twin concerns about objective truth and the teaching enterprise come together, for in exposing the fraudulent content of English textbooks and their malevolent effects, he simultaneously reveals his understanding of what is entailed in a genuine liberal education.
	www.thematthewshouseproject.com /culture/edandabolition.htm (1394 words)

	Building a home philosophy library
		This view was anticipated and examined by C S Lewis in The Abolition of Man.
		In the third chapter, "The Abolition of Man", Lewis examines the potential outcome of a union between the abandonment of value and the "progress" of science.
		He notes that the power science has allegedly given man over nature is, in fact, also a power science has given some men over other men.
	www.philosophers.co.uk /cafe/library26.htm (461 words)

	UPNE - Abolition: Robert Badinter
		Part legal drama, part political procedural, Abolition is above all a passionate argument against the death penalty and the rare story of politicians’ willingness to fight for their principles, even against the popular will.
		Horrified by the guillotine execution of one of his clients in 1972, Robert Badinter dedicated his life to the abolition of the death penalty.
		This is not only the story of a one man’s battle against the death penalty but also a clarion call for political bravery in the face of America’s increasing isolation on this critical issue.
	www.upne.com /1-55553-692-1.html (404 words)

	The Abolition of "Man" (This Rock: April 1999)
		Therefore, to attempt to use "man" as unmarked is an obsolete use of English which is insensitive to women.
		"Man" and "he" should be avoided, neutered, or statistically balanced with "woman" and "she" as a means of linguistic equality.
		This position recognizes that "man" is currently used in English to refer to both men and women but considers it abusive.
	www.catholic.com /thisrock/1999/9904fea3.asp (2882 words)

	Bioethics and Stem Cells
		This tends to deflect a close examination of a movement that is unraveling reverence to God and respect for man. Springing from the seedbed of Scientism, that movement's central premise is that Nature is not good, it postulates, nor is it evil.
		There is a practical reason for putting a spotlight on this movement today.
		Experiments using stem cells derived from umbilical cord blood and adult organs and tissue are extremely promising.
	www.nonprofitpages.com /mcfl/dean.htm (578 words)

	C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man: A Summary and a Brief Summary
		And since their power is perfectly effective, the human race will for the rest of its existence be subjected to such forces of nature as happen to have acted upon the Conditioners.
		Man’s conquest of Nature has in one sense been a surrender to Nature ever since the birth of modern science.
		Modern people who admit this are then likely not to accept but to reject all, since they believe that morality is human, humanity is nature, and nature is a thing to rule not to be ruled by.
	www.solcon.nl /arendsmilde/cslewis/reflections/e-abolsum.htm (2077 words)

	Autumn 2000 Online Response: The Abolition of Man
		The Abolition of Man, originally composed as a series of three lectures delivered at the University of Durham in February 1943, is one of more than a dozen works of Christian apologetics written by Lewis.
		Lewis begins the first lecture in The Abolition of Man by challenging two elementary textbook authors he calls "Gaius" and "Titius," who claim that our moral and value judgments are simply misleading ways of describing our personal preferences.
		The Abolition of Man is full of wonderful insights, which they greatly appreciate." Goggans, too, appreciates Lewis' depth of insight.
	www.spu.edu /depts/uc/response/fall2k/abolition.html (1726 words)

	MySpace.com - Zenith of Abolition (Debut Album OUT NOW!!!) - Utrecht/Amersfoort/Soest/Los Angeles, NL - Rock - ...
		The story of Zenith of Abolition began in September of 2006 when three brothers and a close friend joined forces to form the band.
		Emblazoned with the name Zenith of Abolition, Erik, Marty, Ray, and Robert express their hope for a world in which injustice, poverty, inequality and dysfunctional relationships will one day be abolished.
		Their moniker is also a tribute to the Abolitionists, who bravely fought against the institution of slavery in the 1700 and 1800s and triumphed in its obliteration in their day.
	www.myspace.com /zenithofabolition (980 words)

	The Abolition of Man - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Abolition of Man is a 1943 book by C.
		He says that although these values are universal, they are not natural (or at least not inevitable) in children, and must be inculcated through education.
		A Summary and a Brief Summary of The Abolition of Man
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Abolition_of_Man (660 words)

	The Abolition of Man? - portrayal of male characters in Western motion pictures Reason - Find Articles
		The Abolition of Man? - portrayal of male characters in Western motion pictures
		Watch out, warns George Will: You just might "put us on a slippery slope to the abolition of humanity." What's at stake, Dinesh D'Souza adds in The Virtue of Prosperity, is "the viability of the human race." Will and D'Souza didn't arrive at the same stance by accident.
		You might not guess it from the potted popularizations in the press, but a man is more than the sum of his genes, just as the decor of a house is more than a surveyor's map of the land it sits on.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1568/is_2_33/ai_75099628 (823 words)

	Abolition of Man is online (BatesLine)
		The Abolition of Man can be read online, on the website of the Augustine Club of Columbia University.
		Hat tip for the link to Eve Tushnet, who also links today to Lego scenes of the life of Martin Luther -- Luther posting his 95 Theses, Luther at the Diet of Worms, Luther translating the Bible in the Wartburg Castle, Luther throwing his inkwell at the Devil.
		I got the impression that he was a very nice man, but given to wishful thinking and not very strong on applying logic to his thesis.
	www.batesline.com /archives/001722.html (641 words)

	Abolished Man: From Instruction to Indoctrination in the New Education
		He did so specifically in his 1947 book, The Abolition of Man. Lewis chose that title because he recognised that the new educational trends were destructive to our humanity, since they redefined mankind in sub-human terms.
		Those were: first, that all values are creations of man; and second, that man therefore owes no allegiance to any values but those that he makes or chooses for himself.
		Norman Lear is one such practical man. Lear, a highly successful TV producer, is founder of People for the American Way (PAW), an advocacy group that has attacked the presence of (Christian) religion in public life and public [UK - state] schools.
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~emcd/Education_AbolishedMan.htm (4506 words)

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