Men without Minds
By Steven Jonathan Rummelsburg
Few criticisms of modern education have aged as well as C.S. Lewis's 1943 The Abolition of Man. In "Men without Chests," Lewis explains, "we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. . . .We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful." The chest, in this context, is the trained heart that subordinates the appetites to the right use of reason. While Lewis focused on the chest, we can extend the analysis to the head, where the same surgery is performed on both the "mind" and "intelligence."
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