Modern Education In The Abolition Of Man By C. S. Lewis

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Currently, the world faces many problems involving education. Including, expensive college tuition, lack of math and science but most importantly unequal global education. For example women in the Middle East have limited education and there is an enormous lack of modern education in third world countries. But in his novel The Abolition of Man C.S. Lewis points out that our modern education system is not perfect. Lewis presents an argument about how the modern education is far inferior to the post-modern education. The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis is successful in using rhetoric to prove that the Tao is no longer a part of modern education which is leading to the abolition of human nature. In the novel Lewis argues that modern education is no longer teaching students about Tao. According to Lewis, Tao is the values that are shared by all the religions and in philosophy of how human should live a moral life. As stated by Lewis “It is the reality beyond all predicates, the abyss that was before the Creator Himself. It is the Nature, it is the way, the Road” (Lewis, 18). The Tao also tells us that there is truth in the world and that it was …show more content…

Lewis uses rhetoric in his novel Abolition of Man to attempt to convince his readers that the elimination the Tao in education is causing the destruction of humanity. Lewis uses logos to see the mounting threat of not teaching Tao. He lets the reader see how the loss of Tao in our society logically creates Men without Chest and that is the abolition of man. Additionally, Lewis also uses pathos to provoke worry into his readers about the future generations. This convinces readers they should worry about society’s future and that they should follow and teach the Tao described by Lewis. Additionally, Lewis is an established writer and author so the reader’s trust his opinions this is ethos persuasion. Also he uses the character of the reader to use their authority over younger generations and act in accordance with the

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