Ideas Have Consequences
 

Ideas Have Consequences

by Richard M. Weaver

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... (read more)

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Ideas Have Consequences is best understood not as a philosophical work but as a detailed examination of the mental and social consequences of liberalism. Exploring such phenomena as relativism, consumerism, egoism, fragmentation, the spoiled-child syndrome, aversion to work, and related modern trends, Weaver shows how these mental diseases have infected our society, culminating from seeds sown by innovating and leveling social tinkerers, thereby blasting the notion of progress and...

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