No one would deny that today freedom stands unchallenged as the supreme value of the Western world. Philosophers debate its nature and meaning endlessly; it is the catchword of every politician, the secular gospel of our economic, "free enterprise" system, and the foundation of all our cultural activities. It is also the central value of Christianity: being redeemed, being freed by, and in, Christ, is the ultimate goal of all Christians. It is the one value that many people seem prepared to die for, certainly by their words, and often by their actions. During the long nightmare of the Cold War, leaders of the West had even divided the world into two great camps, the free world and the unfree, and repeatedly declared, with dreadful sincerity, that they were prepared to risk a nuclear holocaust in order to defend this sacred ideal we call freedom.
TÖRTÉNELEM / Politika kategória termékei
Orlando Patterson: Freedom Volume I. Freedom in the Making of Western Culture
Kiadás:
New York, 1991
Kiadó:
Kategóriák:
Politika Egyetemes történelem Szociológia
Terjedelem:
487 p.
Kötésmód:
papír
ISBN:
0465025323