Tag: Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks
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Has Europe Lost Its Soul?
“The religious roots of the market economy and of democratic capitalism…were produced by a culture saturated in the values of the Judaeo-Christian heritage, and market economics was originally intended to advance those values.” “When Europe recovers its soul, it will recover its wealth-creating energies. But first it must remember: humanity was not created to serve…
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The Limits of Secularism
An outsanding analysis by the Chief Rabbi of England Lord Sacks. Some highlights: In 1997…I argued that the world had moved on since (Isaiah) Berlin’s great 1957 lecture “Two Concepts of Liberty” (.pdf), and that the threat to liberty was now different: not totalitarianism but rather the internal moral decay of free societies. So there…