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Curing Mad Truths
eBook - Medieval Wisdom for the Modern Age, Catholic Ideas for a Secular World
ISBN/EAN: 9780268105723
Umbreit-Nr.: 2707286
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 152 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 25.06.2019
Auflage: 1/2019
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Format: PDF
DRM: Adobe DRM
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- In his first book composed in English, Remi Brague maintains that there is a fundamental problem with modernity: we no longer consider the created world and humanity as intrinsically valuable. Curing Mad Truths, based on a number of Brague's lectures to English-speaking audiences, explores the idea that humanity must return to the Middle Ages. Not the Middle Ages of purported backwardness and barbarism, but rather a Middle Ages that understood creation-including human beings-as the product of an intelligent and benevolent God. The positive developments that have come about due to the modern project, be they health, knowledge, freedom, or peace, are not grounded in a rational project because human existence itself is no longer the good that it once was. Brague turns to our intellectual forebears of the medieval world to present a reasoned argument as to why humanity and civilizations are goods worth promoting and preserving.Curing Mad Truths will be of interest to a learned audience of philosophers, historians, and medievalists.