The Top 5 Social Conservative Books Of All Time

3.) Richard Weaver approached the decline of Western values in the mid-20th century with a unique proposition: that the rise of nominalism 600 years earlier, during the High Middle Ages, had led to the series of intellectual shifts and ideologies that were, in his day and ours, eroding the moral and civilizational bedrock of the West. In Ideas Have Consequences, he proposed that the adoption of nominalism by early academics–the idea that there is no absolute truth–slowly but surely undid all of the virtues and morals of the Christian tradition. He offered recent examples of society’s decay, paramount among them the specter of World War II and the Third Reich.

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