The Cube and the Cathedral Read By George Weigel
| Title | : | The Cube and the Cathedral |
| Author | : | George Weigel |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Page | : | 202 pages |
| ISBN | : | 0465092667 |
Why do Europeans and Americans see the world so differently Why do Europeans and Americans have such different understandings of democracy and its discontents in the twenty first century Contrasting the civilization that produced the starkly modernist cube of the Great Arch of La D fense in Paris with the civilization that produced the cathedral of Notre Dame, George Why do Europeans and Americans see the world so differently Why do Europeans and Americans have such different understandings of democracy and its discontents in the twenty first century Contrasting the civilization that produced the starkly modernist cube of the Great Arch of La D fense in Paris with the civilization that produced the cathedral of Notre Dame, George Weigel argues that Europe s embrace of a narrow secularism has led to a crisis of morale that is eroding Europe s soul and threatening its future with dire lessons for the rest of the democratic world.Weigel traces the origins of Europe s problem to the atheistic humanism of the nineteenth century European intellectual life, which set in motion a historical process that produced two world wars, three totalitarian systems, the Gulag, Auschwitz, the Cold War and, most ominously, the Continent s de population, which is worse today than during the Black Death.And yet, many Europeans still insist most recently, during the debate over a new EU constitution that only a public square shorn of religiously informed moral argument is safe for human rights and democracy Precisely the opposite, Weigel suggests, is true the people of the cathedral can give a compelling account of their commitment to everyone s freedom the people of the cube cannot.Can there be any true politics any true deliberation about the common good, and any robust defense of freedom without God George Weigel makes a powerful case that the answer is No, because, in the final analysis, societies are only as great as their spiritual aspirations
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Why do Europeans and Americans see the world so differently Why do Europeans and Americans have such different understandings of democracy and its dis
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