April 2019 Authors: Manuel Alejandro Crespo Rodríguez Centro de. Instead of supporting truth, reason, and the pursuit of virtue, Shapiro asserts that the American political left has abandoned the aforementioned for victimhood. The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great. First: what is Western civilization Second: why are so many within it actively working for its dissolution The book is divided into nine chapters with a separate introduction and conclusion. The author contends that the modern American political left has embraced tribal identity, which, in his view, abandons Western civilization’s philosophical traditions. In the Right Side of History, Ben Shapiro tries to make sense of this problem by answering two fundamental questions. The Right Side of History advocates for strong opposition to efforts to weaken individual rights in America. He cites Thomas Jefferson’s comments about the Declaration of Independence as an effort to ingrain the thought of Aristotle, Cicero, Locke, and other great philosophers into the fabric of America. The writer posits that the reason so many Americans do not have a positive outlook about the future is they are not living lives centered on moral purpose.īen Shapiro argues that the United States was the first nation to be grounded in philosophy.
The author attempts to provide of an understanding of the centuries of thought that have developed and maintained the West, and he attacks threats to the dominant thought that has been central to defining the West.įor Shapiro, people desiring to be happy must pursue a life of moral purpose. Ben Shapiro’s The Right Side of History (2019) is a thorough defense of Western civilization and the religious and philosophical thought that has supported it.
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