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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814478503321

Autore

Kreeft Peter

Titolo

How to destroy Western civilization and other ideas from the cultural abyss / / Peter J. Kreeft

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Francisco : , : Ignatius Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

1-64229-159-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (148 pages)

Disciplina

230

Soggetti

Christianity - Philosophy

Civilization, Western - Christian influences

Essays.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.