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.
##非常精彩 捍衛西方文明的力作
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##思想是有生命的獨立存在,人隻是思想的土壤和傳播媒介。思想一旦産生,它就要傳播齣去,它就要長大,它就可能變成完全不是當初那個樣子。
評分 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...
評分 評分 評分##耶路撒冷和雅典,寓錶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鬥小民,在豆瓣各種熱點議題上,依然插不上話~[攤手]
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。
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