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July 26, 2005

Brushing up on Western Civ.

Just in case you understand that now might be a really good time to be able to defend the achievements of Western Civilization, here's a site, Squashed Philosophers, that offers quick summaries of the best of Western thought.

I have often lamented in my talks that most of us don't have any sense of "Western apologetics" so we can actually learn to understand and defend from whence we came. Sure, we like things like free speech, the rights of man and our desire to understand the universe, but how many can actually defend those things when confronted by those who attack?

As Mark Twain once suggested, "those who do not read good books have no advantage over those who can not."

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