Curing Mad Truths: Medieval Wisdom for the Modern Age Brague Rmi
Curing Mad Truths: Medieval Wisdom for the Modern Age Brague Rmi In his first book composed in English, Rmi Brague maintains that there is a fundamental problem with modernity: we no longer consider…
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Curing Mad Truths: Medieval Wisdom for the Modern Age Brague Rmi
In his first book composed in English, Rmi Brague maintains that there is a fundamental problem with modernity: we no longer consider the created world and humanity as intrinsically valuable. Not the Middle Ages of purported backwardness and barbarism, but rather a Middle Ages that understood creation--including human beings--as the product of an intelligent and benevolent God. Curing Mad Truths, based on a number of Brague's lectures to English-speaking audiences, explores the idea that humanity must return to the Middle Ages.
Brague turns to our intellectual forebears of the medieval world to present a reasoned argument as to why humanity and The positive developments that have come about due to the modern project, be they health, knowledge, freedom, or peace, are not grounded in a rational project because human existence itself is no longer the good that it once was.
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