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The Right Side of History pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載
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.
##Ben同學在他的Podcast上一直力推的新作,讀瞭還是有點失望的,和嚴肅的思想史扯不上關係,耶路撒冷和雅典作為西方文明基石的論點過於簡單化瞭。還真是如他所說是給保守派孩子看的書。
評分##啥啊 全沒聽進去
評分##看瞭preface: conclusion:大概是說從古希臘的natural law,philosophy中反思美國當代的civilization和conflict 看來美國問題也很多。 還有我的觀點是,從虛無去分析虛無,我覺得是徒勞的。 第一個觀點 q:we left our soul in desperate need of sustenence a:persuading moral purpose me:disapproval (其實看到這裏覺得標題改為 美國xx問會好點。還有不知為啥標題是那樣) 其實裏麵提到瞭心理學傢。我覺得現在的心理學雖然可以解釋提高認知,但是卻不能夠真正解決問題。在happiness的問題上並不看好心理學的作用。反而我認同達爾文的理論 。
評分 評分##到瞭人幾乎無所不能的未來,人類恰恰就隻能從曆史中尋找意義。 我們為什麼活著?因為我們要傳承曆史……否則整個人類的存在,都毫無意義。
評分##notice:此書評可能會透露內容。介意請繞道。 看瞭preface: conclusion:大概是說從古希臘的natural law,philosophy中反思美國當代的civilization和conflict 看來美國問題也很多。 還有我的觀點是,從虛無去分析虛無,我覺得是徒勞的。 第一個觀點 q:we left our soul in de...
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。 [The Right Side of History] ★整個西方文明的思想,是建立在兩個支柱之上 一個支柱來自耶路撒冷,也就是猶太教和基督教。《舊約》明確提齣,“上帝照著自己的形象造人”。 1.人人平等。 2.活著的目的:人生就是要完善自我。 提供意義:意義帶來人生的目的。 另一個支柱是雅典...
The Right Side of History pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載