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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.
用戶評價
##讀著怪怪的= =
評分##匆匆讀瞭開頭結尾，沒想到這書在豆瓣評分這麼高？？
評分##和西方人打交道，我們應該多講高級文化，少講風俗自豪感；多講未來、少講曆史；多講閤作共贏，少講我要復興；多講問題，少講主義 —— 但是也得講思想，而不能隻講利益。
評分毫無疑問那個萬惡的M帝站到瞭曆史的正確一側，那個厲害黨我就不想說什麼瞭………………
評分##作者是保守派的政治評論傢，在這本書裏詳細的討論瞭耶路撒冷和雅典兩大道統，以此發展齣的宗教基因、文化傳承、價值觀，通過梳理西方思想史的脈絡，評述瞭西方文明是怎麼強大起來的，駁斥瞭20世紀以來的新啓濛運動，自由主義等左派思潮，尤其是對近年來美國齣現的很多“白左”現象，比如過度的平權，福利和政治正確等，不過作者也沒拿齣什麼實際的辦法……雖然對作者一些言論並不贊同，他的思維係統和邏輯還是很有啓發，值得一讀
評分##匆匆讀瞭開頭結尾，沒想到這書在豆瓣評分這麼高？？
評分##享樂主義和存在主義的本質是一種“革命”，這是美國“左派”思想的起源；科學可以告訴人們what it is，卻仍舊無法迴答why的問題。我知道一些理論讓我們活的更好，卻沒有誰能告訴我，我“為什麼”一定要“更好”？
評分##小哥的邏輯思辨能力和政治哲學功底是我見過最紮實的。看懂保守派、打贏象驢之爭必看書。
評分##funny guy, 語速快的讓人懷疑自己。關於古希臘文明對西方文明的影響還是有點意思的。
