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Nov 17, 2018 · It is clear that this opacity depends on the fact that our “world after God leads to a world after humanism, and, as we have also seen, after morality”: the hint is that the collapse of morality will bring human self-destruction, because social life is not sustainable without a “real morality,” that is, a morality grounded in the true ...
- Mori, Maurizio
Jun 8, 2017 · In The Foundations of Christian Bioethics, Engelhardt presents a bioethics that binds Orthodox Christian moral friends. After God shows itself more pessimistic about the possibility of a merely formal morality of moral friends and calls traditional Christians to wage a culture war.
- Luca Savarino
- 2017
Nov 17, 2018 · Despite its many strengths, Engelhardt’s After God displays two surprising features: an affinity for voluntaristic ethics and a tendency to oppose Eastern Orthodoxy (as a purely revealed religion) to philosophy.
- David Bradshaw
- 2018
As Engelhardt argues, “Even in his youth, Hegel understood that religion transformed by the Enlightenment no longer needed a transcendent God. The Enlightenment created a culture predicated on the irrelevance of a living, personal God” (2000, 96).
In a substantial new afterword to his classic account of the collapse of American triumphalism in the wake of World War II, Tom Engelhardt carries that story in...
- REV-Revised, 2
The End of Victory Culture is a thoughtful tour de force about the post-World War II collapse of our national myth of righteous slaughter and inevitable triumph, as seen by a Baby Boomer trying to recover from a loss of faith in that myth's incantatory power. Tom Engelhardt heard war stories and fingered memorabilia from relatives victorious in ...
Nov 17, 2018 · Although the book is an intelligent critique of contemporary moral philosophy in favor of a kind of traditionalism rooted in the perspective of the Orthodox Church, containing numerous forceful arguments, I ultimately disagree with Engelhardt on several main points stemming from his pessimistic view of our current culture and society.
