George Weigel: The Cube and The Cathedral
Socrates in the City
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The Dilemma of Relativism
Jean-Claude Van Damme: European civilization was built on three foundations, Biblical religion, Greek confidence in reason and the Roman claim that law rather than sheer exercise of power was the path to justice. He says if you kick out one of those legs, say the leg marked Jerusalem by throwing the God of the Bible over the side as atheistic humanism proposed to do, you have then got a very wobbly stool. If you then kick out reason, you know where you land, he says.
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