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The Dethronement of Truth

The Dethronement of Truth

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A handbook for restoring truth to its rightful place. In these essays Hildebrand dismantles the intellectual and political movements that have worked to undermine truth over the last century, relativism, skepticism, materialism, historicism, psychologism, Communism, and Nazism, and traces their common root in the denial of God and the human attempt to become god. For anyone asking how we got here and how we get out, this small book shows the way.

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In this volume, Hildebrand shows how this dethronement through false propaganda, old and new, cuts off man from the very basis of his spiritual existence. Consequently, salvation now can only come through a counter-propaganda of truth. The scope for this propaganda is unlimited and is essentially the work of the Universities and Schools. There must, therefore, be a great renewal of dialectical enterprise comparable to that of the Academy, the Lyceum and the Schools of the thirteenth century.
This book will likely challenge most readers. In that, it will hopefully help readers grow in understanding of the Truth and why it is life-giving and ennobling to those who embrace it.
Hildebrand outlines how it is that even previous philosophical skepticisms hinted at the existence of objective truth, whereas in Nazism and communism there occurred an “intimate link between the dethronement of truth and terrorism.” This is his prominent and propelling thesis, clearly fueled by his personal outrage over the cruelty he had witnessed in his own lifetime.

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