It has been far too long since I’ve posted anything on this blog, and hopefully this new series will resolve this. I don’t know if it will, since it seems like every time I come back to this blog I have grand intentions that come out to nothing. But here we go.
This series will be my own attempt to define and defend this vast and long lived entity know as Western civilization, which appears to be approaching a significant turning point in its history. Widely viewed to be collapsing because of internal decay and outside attacks, whether it be from power (as opposed to ideological) rivals outside of the Western tradition, such as Russia, or ideological opponents such as Islam and communism. This series of essays will be my attempt as a student of history to defend what I view as the current pinnacle of human civilization against outside attacks and to buttress its internal structures against internal decay and do my part to rebuild what has been torn down.
I have no illusions about what this will accomplish, but it is my duty as a citizen and soldier to defend my nation and culture against all threats, foreign and domestic.
What follows is a current outline of what I currently plan to cover. The first four essays will be expositional in nature, an attempt to define and extrapolate in a somewhat limited form the idea of Western Civilization, while the following four to six will be an attempt to defend and answer criticisms, internal and external, directed at Western civilization.
- Introduction
- Ancient Origins
- Modern Manifestations
- Tenets and Foundations
- War and Peace
- Republic and Democracy
- Religion, Christianity and Atheism
- Capitalism and Commerce
- ?
- ?
Any suggestions would be welcome. Try to keep them broad enough to warrant their own category based on what I provided here.
I’ll be looking to start my introduction this weekend.
Thanks to iMonk for his inspiration for this series with his The Evangelical Liturgy series for inspiration
~ by Mark on September 18, 2009.
Posted in A Defense of Western Civilization, Commentary, Reflections, politics
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It has been far too long since I’ve posted anything on this blog, and hopefully this new series will resolve this. I don’t know if it will, since it seems like every time I come back to this blog I have grand intentions that come out to nothing. But here we go.
This series will be my own attempt to define and defend this vast and long lived entity know as Western civilization, which appears to be approaching a significant turning point in its history. Widely viewed to be collapsing because of internal decay and outside attacks, whether it be from power (as opposed to ideological) rivals outside of the Western tradition, such as Russia, or ideological opponents such as Islam and communism. This series of essays will be my attempt as a student of history to defend what I view as the current pinnacle of human civilization against outside attacks and to buttress its internal structures against internal decay and do my part to rebuild what has been torn down.
I have no illusions about what this will accomplish, but it is my duty as a citizen and soldier to defend my nation and culture against all threats, foreign and domestic.
What follows is a current outline of what I currently plan to cover. The first four essays will be expositional in nature, an attempt to define and extrapolate in a somewhat limited form the idea of Western Civilization, while the following four to six will be an attempt to defend and answer criticisms, internal and external, directed at Western civilization.
Any suggestions would be welcome. Try to keep them broad enough to warrant their own category based on what I provided here.
I’ll be looking to start my introduction this weekend.
Thanks to iMonk for his inspiration for this series with his The Evangelical Liturgy series for inspiration
~ by Mark on September 18, 2009.
Posted in A Defense of Western Civilization, Commentary, Reflections, politics
Tags: ancient greece, atheism, captialism, christianity, commerce, defense of western civilization, democracy, europe, history, imonk, internetmonk, nanny state, pacifism, philosophy, politics, Religion, republic, roman republic, united states of america, war and peace