Ideas Have Consequences
A History, Philosophy, Politics book. For it is true historically that those who have shown the greatest subtlety with...
In what has become a classic work, Richard M. Weaver unsparingly diagnoses the ills of our age and offers a realistic remedy. He asserts that the world is intelligible, and that man is free. The catastrophes of our age are the product not of necessity but of unintelligent choice. A cure, he submits, is possible. It lies in the right use of man's reason, in the renewed acceptance of an absolute reality, and in the recognition that ideas—like actions—have consequences.
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The issue ultimately involved is whether there is a source of truth higher than, and independent of, man; and the answer to the question is decisive for ones view of the nature and destiny of man. Richard M. Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences For it is true historically that those who have shown the greatest subtlety with language have shown the greatest power to understand (this does not exclude Sophists, for Plato made the point that one must be able to see the truth accurately in order to judge ones distance from it if he is practicing deception). To take a contemporary example which has statistical support: American universities have found that with few exceptions students who display the greatest mastery of words, as evidenced by vocabulary tests and exercises in writing, make the best... The claim to political equality was then supplemented by the demand for economic democracy, which was to give substance to the ideal of the levelers. Nothing but a despotism could enforce anything so unrealistic, and this explains why modern governments dedicated to this program have become, under one guise and another, despotic. Ted j. Smith III, Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition
Sobering to think this book was written in 1948. Weaver talks about the decline of our society with the clarity of a prophet. From the back cover: "The catastrophes of our age are the product not of necessity but of unintelligent choice. A cure, he submits, is possible. It lies in the right use of man's reason, in the renewed acceptance... Written in 1948, this book offers a prophetic account of how modernism will lead to the collapse of Western civilization. I freely admit I was lost on some points (dangers of jazz?), but overall this is one of the best books I have read. Weaver offers up counter actions to our predicament, primarily through resisting semantic manipulation,... Nowadays, it's common to hear Republicans complaining about the decline of Western civilization. This isn't a new thing, however, and can be traced back to Richard Weaver's famous 1948 book Ideas Have Consequences.Ideas Have Consequences was a ten part philosophical treatise by Weaver on an array of topics, including culture, media,...
