
Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization
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Western civilization is the envy of the globe. It has given to the world universally accepted understandings of human rights (rooted in Judeo-Christian principles), created standards for art, music, and literature that have never been equaled, and originated political and social systems that have spread all across the planet.
Political correctness now obscures these and other truths about Western civilization. Leftists and Islamic jihadists find common cause in assailing Western "colonialism," "imperialism," and "racism" as its defining characteristics. Guilt-ridden Western leaders and public figures speak of their cultural patrimony in disparaging terms they would never dare to use about a non-Western culture. And in universities, "multicultural"-minded professors flatter students into believing they have nothing really to learn from Sophocles or Shakespeare.
But now, Professor Anthony Esolen--one of the team-teachers of Providence College's esteemed Development of Western Civilization Core Curriculum--has risen to the West's defense. The Politically Incorrect Guide(TM) to Western Civilizationtakes on the prevailing liberal assumptions that make Western civilization the universal whipping boy for today's global problems - and introduces you to the significant events, individuals, nations, ideas, and artistic achievements that make Western civilization the greatest the world has ever known.
Today, defending the West has become an urgent imperative: if we don't value what we have and what we have inherited, we will surely lose it.The Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to Western Civilizationis an essential sourcebook for that defense.
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- PREFACE
- Chapter One - ANCIENT GREECE: LOVE OF WISDOM AND BEAUTY
- Laws that cannot be amended
- Athens: Better than the rest
- Father, not mother
- The Greek Isles Effect
- Tradition and the natural law
- Athenian relativists
- Beauty is not merely in the eye of the beholder
- The universal Good
- The State and the end of man
- Chapter Two - ROME: AN EMPIRE OF TRADITION AND PATRIARCHY
- Respecting your elders
- Father knows best
- Tradition's wisdom vs. democracy's fickleness
- Peace through strength
- The real reason Rome fell
- Chapter 3 - ISRAEL: HOW GOD CHANGED THE WORLD
- A God above nature, not a nature god
- Not a political god, but the King of kings
- Knowing God yields science
- They that humble themselves shall be exalted
- A thousand years are as a day
- Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews
- The peace of God that passeth understanding
- Chapter Four - THE EARLY CHURCH: CHARITY AND TOLERANCE ARE BORN
- How Christianity saved the West
- Christianity brings equality and tolerance
- The State, that pagan god
- How Christians elevated culture
- The truth about heretics
- The Good News brings charity
- Chapter Five - THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES: THE BRIGHT AGES
- Islam vs. civilization
- Warmer is better-someone tell Al Gore
- Ruggedly alive
- The Bright Ages: Life in the cathedrals
- Drama's rebirth: Another fruit of Christianity
- PC myth: The Middle Ages were the Dark Ages
- When love and nature were richer
- PC trope: Dancing angels and pinheads
- Before PC: When intellectual curiosity could thrive
- Chapter Six - THE RENAISSANCE: IT'S NOT WHAT YOU THINK
- The PC myths about the Renaissance
- Is there a nature in this man?
- Honoring the past
- Shakespeare on his knees
- Where the Renaissance went wrong: Undermining authority
- Chapter 7 - THE ENLIGHTENMENT: LIBERTY AND TYRANNY
- The will enslaved
- "Enlightenment" yields tyranny
- The Pilgrim Fathers
- Conservative Founders?
- America's forgotten models: Rome and Athens
- Saving reason from itself
- Rousseau and the State
- Samuel Johnson
- Chapter 8 - THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: MAN IS A GOD
- MAN IS A BEAST
- The Romantics' new religion: Nature
- Worshipping man
- What the Industrial Revolution wrought
- Is there such thing as bad art?
- Nietzsche: The honest atheist
- Conservative champions of human dignity
- Chapter Nine - THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: A CENTURY OF BLOOD
- Walter Mitty, rugged individual
- The empire strikes back
- The health of the State, the poverty of the soul
- Art from the people
- Art against the people
- Science without knowledge
- The Pill's bitter effects
- History can restore us
- NOTES
- Copyright Page
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