Ideas Have Consequences

10 best books like Ideas Have Consequences (Richard M. Weaver): A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles, Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass, How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture, The Conscience of a Conservative, The Quest For Community: A Study In The Ethics Of Order And Freedom (Ics Series In Self Governance), Leisure: The Basis of Culture, Fides et Ratio: On the Relationship Between Faith and Reason, The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945, Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition, The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods

A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles

Author	Thomas Sowell
ISBN	0465081428

Controversies in politics arise from many sources, but the conflicts that endure for generations or centuries show a remarkably consistent pattern. In this classic work, Thomas Sowell analyzes this pattern. He describes the two competing visions that shape our debates about the nature of reason,...

Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass

Author	Theodore Dalrymple
ISBN	1566635055

Here is a searing account-probably the best yet published-of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does. Theodore Dalrymple, a British psychiatrist who treats the poor in a slum hospital and a prison in England, has seemingly seen it all. Yet in listening to and observing his patients, he is...

How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture

Author	Francis A. Schaeffer
ISBN	0891072926

How Should We Then Live is a discussion of how philosophy, art, and music have changed throughout history, and what these changes say about the human race and where we are headed.

This book reads like an art history class. Schaeffer takes you through history chronologically, through the dark...

The Conscience of a Conservative

Author	Barry M. Goldwater
ISBN	0691131171

In 1960, Barry Goldwater set forth his brief manifesto in The Conscience of a Conservative. Written at the height of the Cold War and in the wake of America's greatest experiment with big government, the New Deal, Goldwater's message was not only remarkable, but radical. He argued for the value and importance...

The Quest For Community: A Study In The Ethics Of Order And Freedom (Ics Series In Self Governance)

Author	Robert A. Nisbet
ISBN	1558150587

"The Quest for Community" stands among the most important social critiques ever written. The first book by the man the New York Times calls "one of our most original social thinkers", Robert Nisbet's study explores how individualism and statism have flourished while the primary sources of human community...

Leisure: The Basis of Culture

Author	Josef Pieper
ISBN	1890318353

One of the most important philosophy titles published in the twentieth century, Josef Pieper's Leisure: the Basis of Culture is more significant, even more crucial, today than it was when it first appeared fifty years ago. Pieper shows that the Greeks understood and valued leisure, as did the medieval...

Fides et Ratio: On the Relationship Between Faith and Reason

Author	John Paul II
ISBN	0819826693

I found this to be a splendid example of the similarity between science and religion: both rest on faith statements and proceed by logical analysis. If you think science does not rest on faith statements, consider "Hume's Problem of Induction" and "Popperian Falsification."

Five stars!...

The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945

Author

George H. Nash

First published in 1976, and revised in 1996, George H. Nash’s celebrated history of the postwar conservative intellectual movement has become the unquestioned standard in the field. This new edition, published in commemoration of the volume’s thirtieth anniversary,...

Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition

Author	Roger Scruton
ISBN	1250170567

"...one of the most eloquent and even moving evocations of the conservative tradition in Western politics, philosophy and culture I have ever read...the ideal primer for those who are new to conservative ideas..." --Richard Aldous, Wall Street Journal

A brief magisterial introduction...

The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods

Author	Antonin Sertillanges
ISBN	0813206464

"Evening! how little , usually, people know about making it holy and quiet, about using it to prepare for really restorative sleep! How it is wasted, polluted, misdirected."
~~ quote from The Intellectual Life by A.G. Sertillanges, O.P.

It has taken me a year to work my way through...

Saving Leonardo: A Call to Resist the Secular Assault on Mind, Morals, and Meaning

Author	Nancy R. Pearcey
ISBN	1433669277

Is secularism a positive force in the modern world? Or does it lead to fragmentation and disintegration? In Saving Leonardo, best-selling award-winning author Nancy Pearcey (Total Truth, coauthor How Now Shall We Live?) makes a compelling case that secularism is destructive and dehumanizing.

Pearcey...