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America has a God-shaped hole in its heart, argues New York Times bestselling author Ben Shapiro, and we shouldn't fill it with politics and hate.
In 2016, Ben Shapiro spoke at UC Berkeley. Hundreds of police officers were required from 10 UC campuses across the state to protect his speech, which was -- ironically -- about the necessity for free speech and rational debate.
He came to argue that Western Civilization is in the midst of a crisis of purpose and ideas. Our 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.
We can thank these values for the birth of science, the dream of progress, human rights, prosperity, peace, and artistic beauty. Jerusalem and Athens built America, ended slavery, defeated the Nazis and the Communists, lifted billions from poverty and gave billions spiritual purpose. Jerusalem and Athens were the foundations of the Magna Carta and the Treaty of Westphalia; they were the foundations of Declaration of Independence, Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, and Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail.
Civilizations that rejected Jerusalem and Athens have collapsed into dust. The USSR rejected Judeo-Christian values and Greek natural law, substituting a new utopian vision of “social justice” – and they starved and slaughtered tens of millions of human beings. The Nazis rejected Judeo-Christian values and Greek natural law, and they shoved children into gas chambers. Venezuela rejects Judeo-Christian values and Greek natural law, and citizens of their oil-rich nation have been reduced to eating dogs.
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 into age-old tribalism, individualistic hedonism, and moral subjectivism. We believe we can reject Judeo-Christian values and Greek natural law and satisfy ourselves with intersectionality, or scientific materialism, or progressive politics, or authoritarian governance, or nationalistic solidarity.
We can’t.
The West is special, and in The Right Side of History, Ben Shapiro bravely explains that it’s because too many of us have lost sight of the moral purpose that drives us each to be better, or the sacred duty to work together for the greater good, or both. A stark warning, and a call to spiritual arms, this book may be the first step in getting our civilization back on track.
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评分##对历史的梳理挺清晰 ideology对科技进步的影响真大 什么时候可以看看科技史。相信历史是progressive的 存在一套真理需要人去探索大概是从雅典一直传下来推动西方科技进步的一大动力
评分##一个问题的解决方法无法在问题自身的层次上被求得。上帝、telos、民族、国家各种意义推动人存在的源动力，科学技术不断探索意义的边界甚至创造新的意义。
评分##耶路撒冷和雅典，寓表超然啟示和理性探求，乃西方文明的兩大柱石。另一種風味的西方哲學史梳理。學到的新知識，是新左派政治理念的來由和本質。不過，讀完以後，對於咱這種不學無術未開化想當然、頭髮短見識也不長的升斗小民，在豆瓣各種熱點議題上，依然插不上話～[攤手]
评分##对历史的梳理挺清晰 ideology对科技进步的影响真大 什么时候可以看看科技史。相信历史是progressive的 存在一套真理需要人去探索大概是从雅典一直传下来推动西方科技进步的一大动力
评分##和西方人打交道，我们应该多讲高级文化，少讲风俗自豪感；多讲未来、少讲历史；多讲合作共赢，少讲我要复兴；多讲问题，少讲主义 —— 但是也得讲思想，而不能只讲利益。
评分##耶路撒冷和雅典，寓表超然啟示和理性探求，乃西方文明的兩大柱石。另一種風味的西方哲學史梳理。學到的新知識，是新左派政治理念的來由和本質。不過，讀完以後，對於咱這種不學無術未開化想當然、頭髮短見識也不長的升斗小民，在豆瓣各種熱點議題上，依然插不上話～[攤手]
评分##非常精彩 捍卫西方文明的力作
评分##两希文明塑造了西方，然后西方在历史演进中抛弃了两希文化。不感兴趣那些，至少也读读现代国家观念怎么来的吧。
