Finished Reading “Heretics”

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  "G. K. Chesterton, the "Prince of Paradox," is at his witty best in this collection of twenty essays and articles from the turn of the twentieth century. Focusing on  "heretics" - those who pride themselves on their superiority to Christian views - Chesterton appraises prominent figures who fall into that category from the literary and art worlds... those who hold incomplete and inadequate views about "life, the universe, and everything." He is, in short, criticizing all that host of non-Christian views of reality, as he demonstrated in his follow-up book Orthodoxy. The book is both an easy read and a difficult read. But he manages to demonstrate, among other things, that our new 21st century heresies are really not new because he himself deals with most of them." (Goodreads)

Finished Reading: Plato’s Republic, Book 2

Finished Reading Book 2 where we learn that “necessity is the mother of our invention” (the invention being The State, the testing ground for justice); that a class of dedicated warriors are required to defend the state; that the foundation of education consists of gymnastics and music, including literature; and that poets should be censored for misrepresenting God, who should be represented as He truly is and cannot change.

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