Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization - Samuel Gregg Audiobook

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  andyinmanch
  February 20th, 2021
  

  Libertarian bilge.

  Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization - Samuel Gregg
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  nok22m
  February 20th, 2021
  

  Yet another whining christian, pretending that they are the victims. “It’s everyone else who ruins things. We’re perfect.”

  Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization - Samuel Gregg
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  AndyBook
  February 20th, 2021
  

  

  Excellent. Thank you Sir!

  Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization - Samuel Gregg
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  audiobayyz
  February 21st, 2021
  

  Ah yes another entitled whiny christian. How they love to play the victim.

  Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization - Samuel Gregg
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  queenofspain
  February 21st, 2021
  

  “It was no accident that the Enlightenment took place in the culture formed by the Jewish and Christian faiths.”

  Or the Enlightenment was a reaction against the Christian faith, thanks to the many Arab scholars who had maintained the classical traditions of librarianship, mathematics, engineering and astronomy while Europe went through a thousand years of anti-science.

  Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization - Samuel Gregg
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  caesar963
  February 21st, 2021
  

  

  To the books with you, your majesty! The “thousand years of anti-science” during which the “Christian faith” created the university, the hospital, preserved literacy, gathered and protected the works of the Classical era from barbarian incursions, and preserved these in scriptoria throughout Europe, initiated four renaissances, reformed agriculture and law, extended education and the sciences through cathedral & monastic schools and the works of thinkers including Augustine, Anselm, Abelard, Duns Scotus, Bonaventure, Albertus Magnus, Roger Bacon, Meister Eckhart, John Scotus Eriugena, William of Ockham, Boethius, and Thomas Aquinas.

  All of whom engaged with Classical texts, and Classical thought, generally (of particular importance were Plato & Aristotle). “Faith seeking understanding” guided their rational explorations in the project to successfully and creatively integrate Athens with Jerusalem.

  The anti-science narrative is a comforting bigotry indulged in by the…oblivious.

  Not to burst yer bubble on the Enlightenment, but, inter alia, it did actually result in “scientific” racism, the French Revolutionary Terror and wars, the slaughter in the the Vendée, the establishment of Napoleonic despotism and the Napoleonic wars, which in turn resulted in the rise of reactionary nationalism throughout Europe.

  Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization - Samuel Gregg
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  jkdmanaz
  February 21st, 2021
  

  

  Many thanks for all you do, rmoor!
  You are truly a rare gem, and your shares are sorely needed.

  Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization - Samuel Gregg
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  howlafist
  February 21st, 2021
  

  The mistake here is in asserting that “fanaticism” is possible without faith. Fanatic behaviour arises from unquestioned belief in an ideology and unwillingness to compromise (i.e. faith without reason). Whether that belief is couched in something classically considered a religion or not is irrelevant.

  Reason without faith leads one to the life of a curmudgeonly recluse, or in some cases suicide. The question, then (assuming the problem of fanatics murdering their more-nuanced counterparts can somehow be resolved), is what sort of faith one ought to choose and when and to what degree it ought to be reason-tempered.

  Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization - Samuel Gregg
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  marcodiluce
  February 22nd, 2021
  

  

  Reason is a human faculty. Conceivably, It could be rational or irrational. Belief in atheism or theism as such are neither rational or irrational but essentially reasonable, though non-rational. Reasonable because they knuckle under the faculty of reason. Non-rational because they are inferences about the world not really subject to the kinds of proof that would put them in the category of the irrational.

  Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization - Samuel Gregg
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  caesar963
  February 22nd, 2021
  

  Neither reason nor faith are “pure” in that abstract sense. They are both subject to numerous other influences and qualifications. Fanaticism, as such, in its religious or non-religious manifestation, is a limit case. It’s not the norm, otherwise it wouldn’t be fanaticism.

  If we look at the horrors of the last century, many of the ideological perpetrators were motivated by fanaticism, in spite of their claiming the rational high ground. However, a preponderance of the murderers would have had a variety of motivations, not necessarily bound up with fanaticism or fundamentalism. A great number were conforming - “following orders” - still others, as horrifying a concept as it is, would’ve derived enjoyment from their actions. It became their new normal.

  Unlike automata, we are complex creatures: rational, faith-oriented, emotional, and rationalising. And yeah, we must ever strive for that Aristotelian balance - to seek to “maintain the Golden Mean.”

  Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization - Samuel Gregg
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  nemerson
  February 5th, 2023
  

  

  A lot of people whining and lecturing others in the comments… save your opinions to yourselves, please! Nobody cares.
  Many thanks for the great upload!

  Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization - Samuel Gregg

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