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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: True happiness comes not from pleasure but from moral purpose.
Chapter 3: Rejecting the Judeo-Christian roots of the West means rejecting progress, equality and free will.
Chapter 4: The philosophers of Athens bestowed on us the power of reason.
Chapter 5: Under Christianity, science and individual rights came into their own.
Chapter 6: Unlike the French Revolutionaries, America’s Founders united the strengths of Jerusalem and Athens.
Chapter 7: In the twentieth century, collectivist ideologies flourished at the cost of individuals.
Chapter 8: Today’s left has traded Western philosophical roots for tribal identity politics.
Description
The Right Side of History (2019) is both a rousing defense of Western civilization and a handy guide to the religious and philosophical thinking that underpins it. It explores the centuries of thought that have helped build and sustain the West, and seeks to understand and dispel more recent threats to that way of thinking.
Who Should Listen
- People interested in the history of philosophy
- Those searching for a conservative guide to today’s world
- People skeptical about contemporary left-of-center political thought