The Right Side of History

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Ben Shapiro
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Broadside Books 2019-3-19 Hardcover 9780062857903

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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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##The moral purpose that provides the foundation for happiness include four elements: individual moral purpose, individual capacity to pursue that purpose, communal moral purpose, and communal capacity to pursue that purpose. These four elements are crucial; ...  

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##兩希文明塑造瞭西方,然後西方在曆史演進中拋棄瞭兩希文化。不感興趣那些,至少也讀讀現代國傢觀念怎麼來的吧。

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##The moral purpose that provides the foundation for happiness include four elements: individual moral purpose, individual capacity to pursue that purpose, communal moral purpose, and communal capacity to pursue that purpose. These four elements are crucial; ...  

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##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...  

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##一個問題的解決方法無法在問題自身的層次上被求得。上帝、telos、民族、國傢各種意義推動人存在的源動力,科學技術不斷探索意義的邊界甚至創造新的意義。

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##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...  

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