Editing C. S. Lewis (section)

==Political views==
{{Further|The Abolition of Man}}
Lewis eschewed political involvement and partisan politics, took little interest in transitory political issues, and  held many politicians in disdain. He refused a knighthood for fear that his detractors might then use it to accuse him of holding a political viewpoint, and he saw his role as a Christian apologist. His worldview was Christian, but he also did not believe in establishment of Christian parties. He avoided the political sphere, although he was not ignorant of it.<ref name="Dyer and Watson 2016">{{cite book |last1=Dyer |first1=Justin Buckley |last2=Watson |first2=Micah Joel |title=C.S. Lewis on politics and the natural law |date=2016 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |edition=kindle|location=New York |isbn=978-1107108240}}</ref>{{rp|loc=238}} He did not see himself as a political philosopher, but his work, ''The Abolition of Man'' (1943) defends objective value and the concept of natural law. Lewis referred to this work as almost his own favourite, although he felt it had been largely ignored.<ref name="Michelson">{{Cite journal |last=Michelson |first=Paul E. |date=25 September 2008 |title=The Abolition of Man in Retrospect |url=https://pillars.taylor.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1149&context=inklings_forever |journal=Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997–2016 |volume=6 |issue=14}}</ref>{{rp|3}} ''The Abolition of Man'' was not presented as something new. Instead, he paid attention to ideas, with the intent of recovering them. In ''The Abolition of Man'', "Lewis offered the postmodern world a vision of reality that could make sense of our lived moral experiences, and he put forth a powerful defense of natural law as a necessary basis for "the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery".{{R|Dyer and Watson 2016|loc=4876}}