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Benjamin Wiker is an active scholar whose specific professional category is not yet clear. Born in 1960, he has had several decades of academic research experience.

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“[A] intensidade da autodestruição da humanidade é uma medida do mito pelo qual ela se orienta.”

Ideology Scientism Ideologia Cientificismo

Book:10 Books that Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help

Source: 10 Books that Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help

“Sometimes a clearly defined error is the only way to discover the truth”

Way Sometimes Errors Defined

Author:Benjamin Wiker

“In August, 1900, [Friedrich] Nietzsche was laid to rest Nietzsche, as the apostle of atheism, heralded the darkest century the world has ever known.”

World Known Atheism Century Apostles August

Author:Benjamin Wiker

“As with Hobbes, we see again, the power of fiction. Rousseau's acount of natural man was no more real than Hobbes's, but following the same pattern, once it became the accepted story of human origins, it thereby exercised the power of a self-fulfilling prophecy. In imagining Rousseau to be right, we have become what Rousseau imagined.”

Men Humans Real Self Stories Natural Fiction Patterns Following Accepted Fulfilling Prophecy Hobbes Self Fulfilling Prophecy

Author:Benjamin Wiker

“There once was a man called Rousseau who wrote a book containing nothing but ideas. The second edition was bound in the skins of those who laughed at the first.”

Men Firsts Book Ideas Skins Bounds Laughed Containing

Book:10 Books that Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help

Source: 10 Books that Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help

“Once we allow ourselves to do evil so that some perceived good may follow, we allow ever greater evils for the sake of ever more questionable goods, until we consent to the greatest evils for the sake of mere trifles.”

May Evil Greater Mere Sake Goods Consent Trifles Questionable

Book:10 Books that Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help

Source: 10 Books that Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help

“Like Aristotle, conservatives generally accept the world as it is; they distrust the politics of abstract reason – that is, reason divorced from experience.”

World Reason Accepting Abstract Distrust Divorced

Book:10 Books Every Conservative Must Read: Plus Four Not to Miss and One Impostor

Source: 10 Books Every Conservative Must Read: Plus Four Not to Miss and One Impostor

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Born: 1960
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10 Books that Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't HelpRelated source material

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