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The right side of history : how reason and moral purpose made the West great / Ben Shapiro.
An outspoken conservative commentator considers the state of the West today, asking why, if American lives have never been better than at any other time in history, the United States' political, social, and economic situation is beginning to erode.
Shapiro argues that Western freedoms are built upon the twin notions that every human being is made in God's image and that human beings were created with reason capable of exploring God's world. These values gave us the birth of science, the dream of progress, human rights, prosperity, peace, and artistic beauty. Jerusalem and Athens were the foundations of the Magna Carta and the Declaration of Independence; civilizations that rejected Jerusalem and Athens have collapsed into dust. Now we are in the process of abandoning Judeo-Christian values and Greek natural law, favoring instead moral subjectivism and the rule of passion. And we are watching our civilization collapse.... -- adapted from information provided
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- ISBN: 9780062857903
- ISBN: 0062857908
- Physical Description: xxvii, 256 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Broadside Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019]
- Copyright: ©2019
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-241) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction -- The pursuit of happiness -- From the mountaintop -- From the dust -- Coming together -- Endowed by their creators -- Killing purpose, killing capacity -- The remaking of the world -- After the fire -- The return to paganism -- Conclusion: How to build. |
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