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#1078217 in Books Meic Pearse 2004-06-13Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 8.25 x .56 x 5.50l; .57 #File Name: 0830832025188 pagesWhy the Rest Hates the West Understanding the Roots of Global Rage
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. This is one of the better books I've readBy C. S. GodwinThis is one of the better books I've read. It really opened my eyes. As the author states. We don't live in a real culture; with real values. We live in an anti-culture; with anti-values. We have done and are doing so many things wrong. Great work.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Choosing a Social ConstructBy Danielle M. RizzoThis is a noble book. The author writes from a Christian perspective to a presumably Christian audience; challenging them to embrace their own history and its values as a means of entering into any meaningful dialogue with other cultures who hold opposing values. He incisively points to the West's redefinition of "tolerance" as a breaking point with its own history as well as with that of non-Westerners. Whereas the rest of humanity has viewed tolerance as the ability of groups who share opposing viewpoints to negotiate a peaceful co-existence; the modern West has redefined tolerance as "a dogmatic abdication of truth-claims and a moralistic adherence to moral relativism." Moreover; the modern West uses its cultural influence and military might to impose this anti-values system on the world. Pearse goes on to chronicle the manner in which this way of thinking threatens to unravel traditional culture. He concludes with a call back to traditional morality; asking Christians to engage the non-West from a staunchly Christian perspective rather than abdicating Christianity's truth claims to the relativistic culture of the West. His point is that the non-West will be more inclined to enter into a dialogue with an honest; self-embracing religious culture than with an a-historical; self-consciously morally relativistic culture.Pearse also takes the reader on a historical journey; discussing the manner in which pre-Modern Western society once adhered to a common set of values which was maintained through personal relationships imbued with loyalty (think: Western Civ. 101/ feudal relationships). The past was also marked by a commingling of personal and private life; free from the stark division between these spheres which has come to characterize modern existence. He carefully examines the way in which his pre-modern culture was maintained; even discussing some of its reinforcing elements as mythical. Yet he holds up this constructed reality as starkly contrasting our present; constructed reality; as a better example of how to exist. His call to Christians to return to traditional values is a call to an older social reality that he readily admits is as much a construct as the present day.Pearse's premise seems right that the Modern West is very much out of step with its own past and with the rest of present-day humanity in its turning away from traditional values and in radically redefining tolerance. But he fails to address what is inherently right about the perspective of all of history and the rest of modern humanity. What is it about their constructed reality that is inherently better? Other than that to agree with them (and to "rejoin humanity;" as he urges) will alleviate conflict and at least appear less brash?0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy CJSExcellent reference / resource materiel.
