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1 online resource |
| Contents |
How to destroy Western civilization -- What can Chicken Little do? -- The unmentionable elephant in the living room of the religious liberty debate -- The paradox of poverty -- The logic of liberalism -- The social, moral, and sexual effects of symbolic logic -- Twelve core values -- Traditionalism and progressivism -- C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the culture wars -- Heroes -- What is a liberal? -- What is the key to a good society? -- Seventeen freedoms -- Four confusions about freedom -- Is agnosticism in religion the default position? -- A word about Islam, and a defense of my controversial book about it -- Pity vs. pacifism -- Judgment |
| Summary |
Best-selling author Peter Kreeft presents a series of brilliant essays about many of the issues that increasingly divide our Western civilization and culture. He states that these essays are not new proposals or solutions to today's problems. They are old. They have been tried, and have worked. They have made people happy and good. That is what makes them so radical and so unusual today. The most uncommon thing today is common sense. Kreeft presents relevant, philosophical data that can guide us, divided into 7 categories: epistemological, theological, metaphysical, anthropological, ethical, political, and historical. He then explores these categories with classic Kreeft insights, presenting 40 pithy points on how we can implement the data from these categories to help save civilization;and more importantly, save souls |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 04, 2021) |
| Subject |
Civilization, Western -- Christian influences.
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Civilization, Western -- Philosophy
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Christianity and culture.
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Religion and culture.
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Religion and culture
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Christianity and culture
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Civilization, Western -- Christian influences
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Civilization, Western -- Philosophy
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| Genre/Form |
essays.
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Essays
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Essays.
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Essais.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781642291599 |
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1642291595 |
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