Episode 3: Richard Weaver - Ideas Have Consequences
Conservative Minds
English - December 22, 2018 15:00 - 52 minutes - 51.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 141 ratingsPhilosophy Society & Culture News conservative conservatism politics political philosophy economics intellectual history values government Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Weaver identified philosophical and cultural trends bubbling in the 1940s that denied absolute truth and higher-ordered values. He saw universal narratives - like God or country or family - that provide meaning and coherence to the world falling under the attack of relativism. The consequence of these ideas, he says, is the cultural decline of the West.
Weaver identified philosophical and cultural trends bubbling in the 1940s that denied absolute truth and higher-ordered values. He saw universal narratives - like God or country or family - that provide meaning and coherence to the world falling under the attack of relativism. The consequence of these ideas, he says, is the cultural decline of the West.