Can We/Should We Save the "West"?
Classical Wisdom Speaks
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Can the West Be Saved?
Anya Benton: Do you think that the West can definitely be saved? Is it sort of an inevitable decline? And if so, are the ideas alone sufficient? Does there need to be an action or structural change is something that's beyond us mere mortals? She says yes. The question is not whether these traditions are going to endure in some form, but what role we're going to play in the history of their development. "We have no right to despair and no place or cause to despair," she says.
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