‘The Way’: C.S. Lewis, on the Only Way of Being Human

Chapter 2 of this groundbreaking essay confronts moral relativism by so-called “Innovators.”

Natural Law, or The Way, is attacked by innovators, according to Chapter 2 of "The Abolition of Man." bpawesome/Shutterstock

Commentary

C.S. Lewis’s trailblazing three-chapter essay, “The Abolition of Man,” uses the fictitious characters Gaius and Titius to skewer moral relativists of his day. His scathing critique unmasks their manifesto on morality as no more than a canon of convenience.