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The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great Paperback – 24 Mar. 2020
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A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
Human beings have never had it better than we have it now in the West. So why are we on the verge of throwing it all away?
In 2016, New York Times bestselling author Ben Shapiro spoke at the University of California–Berkeley. Hundreds of police officers were required to protect his speech. What was so frightening about Shapiro? He came to argue that Western civilization is in the midst of a crisis of purpose and ideas; that we have let grievances replace our sense of community and political expediency limit our individual rights; that we are teaching our kids that their emotions matter more than rational debate; and that the only meaning in life is arbitrary and subjective.
As a society, we are forgetting that almost everything great that has ever happened in history happened because of people who believed in both Judeo-Christian values and in the Greek-born power of reason. In The Right Side of History, Shapiro sprints through more than 3,500 years, dozens of philosophers, and the thicket of modern politics to show how 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 more spiritual purpose.
Yet we are in the process of abandoning Judeo-Christian values and Greek natural law, watching our civilization collapse into age-old tribalism, individualistic hedonism, and moral subjectivism. We believe we can satisfy ourselves with intersectionality, scientific materialism, progressive politics, authoritarian governance, or nationalistic solidarity.
We can’t.
The West is special, and in The Right Side of History, Ben Shapiro bravely explains how we have lost sight of the moral purpose that drives each of us to be better, the sacred duty to work together for the greater good,.
- Print length288 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherBroadside Books
- Publication date24 Mar. 2020
- Dimensions13.49 x 1.65 x 20.32 cm
- ISBN-100062857916
- ISBN-13978-0062857910
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“As an ideological refresher on what the West got right, Shapiro’s book gets the job done.” — The Washington Post
Shapiro cavorts through 3,000 years of intellectual history in the span of about 250 pages, offering a perspicuous, “user-friendly” dive into some of our civilization’s biggest ideas. — The Washington Examiner
“Ben Shapiro knows the power of his voice. He stands up and fights for what he believes with time-tested ideas. The Right Side of History is thoughtful and well-reasoned - exactly what Shapiro’s critics don’t want you to hear.” — Nikki Haley, former premanent representative of the U.S. Mission of the United Nations
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Human beings have never had it better than we have it now in the West. So why are we on the verge of throwing it all away?
In 2016, the New York Times bestselling author Ben Shapiro spoke at the University of California–Berkeley. Hundreds of police officers were required to protect his speech. What was so frightening about Shapiro? He came to argue that Western civilization is in the midst of a crisis of purpose and ideas; that we have let grievances replace our sense of community, and political expediency limit our individual rights; that we are teaching our kids that their emotions matter more than rational debate; and that the only meaning in life is arbitrary and subjective.
As a society, we are forgetting that almost everything great that has ever happened in history happened because of people who believed in both Judeo-Christian values and in the Greek-born power of reason. In The Right Side of History, Shapiro sprints through more than 3,500 years, dozens of philosophers, and the thicket of modern politics to show how 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 that is capable of exploring God’s world.
We have these values to thank 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 more spiritual purpose.
Yet we are in the process of abandoning Judeo-Christian values and Greek natural law, watching our civilization collapse into age-old tribalism, individualistic hedonism, and moral subjectivism. We believe we can satisfy ourselves with intersectionality, scientific materialism, progressive politics, authoritarian governance, or nationalistic solidarity.
We can’t.
The West is special, and in The Right Side of History, Ben Shapiro bravely explains how we have lost sight of the moral purpose that drives each of us to be better and the sacred duty to work together for the greater good.
About the Author
Ben Shapiro is founding editor-in-chief and editor emeritus of The Daily Wire and host of "The Ben Shapiro Show," the top conservative podcast in the nation. A New York Times bestselling author, Shapiro is a graduate of Harvard Law School, and an Orthodox Jew. His work has been profiled in nearly every major American publication, and he has appeared as the featured speaker at many conservative events on campuses nationwide, several of those appearances targeted by progressive and “Antifa” activists.
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- Publisher : Broadside Books; Reprint edition (24 Mar. 2020)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 288 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0062857916
- ISBN-13 : 978-0062857910
- Dimensions : 13.49 x 1.65 x 20.32 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 290,265 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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- 532 in Philosophy & Religion
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Ben Shapiro is editor-in-chief of The Daily Wire and host of "The Ben Shapiro Show," the top conservative podcast in the nation. A New York Times bestselling author, Shapiro is a graduate of Harvard Law School, and an Orthodox Jew. His work has been profiled in nearly every major American publication.
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In „The right Side of History“ stellt er im Eilmarsch die wichtigsten Denker und Entwicklungen dieser beiden Tradition von ca 3500 vor Christus bis heute vor und argumentiert wo von Shapiros Standpunkt aus Fehler in der heutigen Rezeption und im Umgang mit diesen Werten und Ideen gemacht wurden. Man muss dabei beachten, dass Shapiro ein (intelligenter) politischer Kommentator ist und kein Philosoph oder Forscher. In seiner Darstellung geht es um Verständlichkeit und Lesbarkeit und die Darlegung seiner Sicht auf die Welt, nicht um akribische Offenlegung von Wurzeln und das Verfolgen von Gedankensträngen im Detail. Er bleibt daher meist eher an der Oberfläche, doch seine Ausführungen laden dazu ein sich mit den genannten Denken und Philosophen sowie Gedanken und Ideen näher zu befassen. Aus Sicht des Rezensenten mach dies das Buch zwar auf der einen Seite nicht unbedingt zum tiefschürfensten Werk zu dieser Thematik, aber gleichzeitig den Text extrem gut lesbar und auch für „Einsteiger“ geeignet.
Shapiros Werk könnte man durchaus als Einladung zur Disputation sehen oder wohl eher noch zur Auseinandersetzung mit einer konservativ religiös fundierten Sicht auf die Welt wie sie größere Teile der Bevölkerung der USA durchaus noch pflegen. Aus dieser Perspektive mag das Werk auch für Menschen, die mit Shapiros Meinung und Standpunkt nicht übereinstimmen von Interesse sein. Der eine oder andere wird sich aber ohne Zweifel mit der Idee der USA als „der besten und entwickelten Gesellschaft die jemals existierte“, der Vorstellung „City on the hill“ Ausfluss des Gedankens des amerikanischen Exzeptionalismus sicher etwas schwerer anfreunden, da uns diese Art von Denken eher fremd geworden ist.
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On the journey we look at the human journey for the 'Pursuit of Happiness' and explore what that means specifically. We go through several historical Empires, movements and figures, Nazi Germany, Marxism and the fascism of toxic identity politics, bringing us up to the modern day.
As expected he gets into his own experiences with the attacks on free speech by the modern day neo-Marxist postmodernist far-left (namely the California State University incident) in context of the history that he has explored throughout the book.
Shapiro warns the reader of what the inevitable outcome will be, unless we can return to traditional values.