
Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization
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John McLain
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Samuel Gregg
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Western civilization's genius is in its synthesis of reason and faith. These foundations are under assault today from Islamists and radical secularists. Unless Western society recovers its confidence in this synthesis and its capacity to magnify human freedom and achievement, our future is limited.
This sharp commentary on the rise and current decline of Western Civilization touches on historical moments - including the building of early universities in the Middle Ages and the American Revolution - and figures - including Augustine, Acquinas, Edmund Burke, and Adam Smith - that exemplify the faith-reason synthesis at the heart of Western Civilization, as well as the modern villains that threaten to destroy it.
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surprisingly good
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I was having a tough time with the narration sometimes. Hard to keep interested as it seemed to me to be slightly monotonous.
Also, there were important points in here and some mundane points. Somehow the telling of the story didn't get me catching on sometimes. My fault I'm sure, but it seemed more difficult than should be.
Overall great book. Liked it a lot. Great review of faith and reason.
Excellent Material
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enlightening. I think.
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True, identifying the divorce of faith and reason as the central driver of that process doesn’t make him original. But his account of the centrality of faith and reason to Western civilization—and the thinkers who have labored to defend or destroy their connection—is admirably lucid. So far from antagonistic, faith and reason are mutually sustaining. Faith prevents the work of human reason – science, philosophy, politics—from descending to the guillotine and the gulag. Reason rescues faith from becoming nothing more substantive than personal emotional experience, opening it to charges of irrationality and superstition – and making the guillotine and the gulag far more likely.
There’s more to it, of course, but the manifold pathologies Gregg dissects so perceptively all stem from the pernicious myth of the incompatibility of faith and reason. Along the way, Gregg attempts to reset some other widely held assumptions. For example, the self-proclaimed Enlightenment, for all its rationality, was by no means universally hostile to faith. Nevertheless, that hasn't prevented this misconception from becoming, ironically, an article of secular faith. Over the years science created experts who, over the years (remember, this is a gradual process) have come to understand human beings in strictly materialistic terms; just so much wet cement to be poured into the appropriate mold. The experts' declared aims – liberation from restraints (pain, disease, “superstition”), the maximization of happiness (pleasure, ease of mind and body) – are attractive enough to lull the cement into not really caring what that mold looks like. Thus our God-given reason constructs a hell on earth.
At Hillsdale College this past September, Victor Davis Hanson remarked, “If you try to make sense of the nonsense we’re seeing every day, it’s very difficult”. But comprehending the source of the manifold pathologies debilitating the West—using our reason, guided by faith—makes it a lot easier. And understanding might just bring a solution. Like all books of this type, in the end Gregg offers hope of better days and, considering the intractable nature of humanity’s need for God and the unfailing goodness He lavishes on us (whether we accept it or not) despair would be irrational. Like the book he’s reading, John McLain is admirably clear, though just a tad too impersonal.
How the Wheels Came Off the Bus
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Worthy listen
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Gregg always shows the history of movements that tried to place opposition between the two, favoring one over the other. These movements have had bad consequences, sometimes frighteningly so.
He concludes with words of hope, explaining how the West can rescue itself by once again embracing the compatibility of faith and reason. He shows how the American Founding differed from the French Revolution in this regard, and how to move back in that direction.
Highly recommended.
Excellent description of the current state of the West
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Indispensable
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Good, but...
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