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The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great (udgave 2019)

af Ben Shapiro (Forfatter)

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Religion & Spirituality. Sociology. Nonfiction. HTML: 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 tr… (mere)

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Medlem:	GreenBarbers
Titel:	The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great
Forfattere:	Ben Shapiro (Forfatter)
Info:	Broadside Books (2019), 288 pages
Samlinger:	Dit bibliotek, Skal læses
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I am interested in the views of Ben Shapiro. And at this time in history this book was a must read. I share the concern that our country is un-focused and losing its way. I understand the central purpose of the book. However, it is not easy to read the book. The book is like a marathon: you have slow moments and moments when you fight through the book, but by the end you understand the story. (

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MikeBiever | Mar 31, 2022 |

The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great by Ben Shapiro

Why I picked this book up: I have read two other Ben Shapiro books, Facts Dont Care About Your Feelings and How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps. I highly enjoyed reading those other two and decided to purchase this on too.

Thoughts: this book had a solid into. This is a complex book, traces historical philosophy and authors. This book has the view that we are created in Gods image. This means we have innate value. He also believes humans can reason. He holds that we can know truth, he values Greek reason and objectively true things. He also values tradition. This book has a lot of historical things too and modern issues he touches on which are often past of his daily publically syndicated Daily Wire which I appreciate when reading Ben’s books.

Why I finished this read: Ben is a great author, he is intelligent and his writing flows easily even though it is also complex. It was easy to finish this book because it was fun to read.

I rates his book 5 stars also because it was top notch. (

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DrT | Feb 17, 2022 |

This was not at all what I was expecting. Perhaps my expectations were simply wrong. I generally like to hear what Shapiro has to say, but this book was not what I was wanting. (

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WadeBurgess | May 22, 2021 |

A good introduction to conservative philosophy and political theory. Shapiro breaks no new ground, but he puts into readable, yet scholarly, form these conservative views. It boils down to these twin pillars: Judeo-Christian morality and Greek philosophy/reason. Combine Judeo-Christian morals, stress on the individual, and care for your fellow man with Greek telos and reason and you get Western civilization, which has progressed (in a Whiggish sense, not a socialist sense) from barbarity to civilization. Though there were bumps on the way, slavery for instance, the arc of Western civilization bends toward greater freedoms for the individual and capitalistic progress of technology that makes life better. As I have always said, you need free market capitalism, a democratic republic, rule of law and order, and Christian morality to have a good civilization (you could distill this down to: you need capitalism tempered by Christian morality to have a good society). This is what Shapiro is presenting, in a more erudite and expansive form. It's a good book that deserves to be on any thinking conservative's bookshelf next to the likes of Kirk and Buckley. It can be a slog to read sometimes, but it is worth the effort. (

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Religion & Spirituality. Sociology. Nonfiction. HTML:

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 tr

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