12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

Thinkers of the Enlightenment believed that the Liberal Games combination of freedom, safety, and equal opportunity would go beyond satisfying core philosophical tenets and generate a brilliant side effect: fantastic productivity. The Liberal Games are driven by human nature, just like the Power Games are. But in the Liberal Games, a key limitation

However, the early theorists of social contract were able to take one thing for granted, namely the existence of a shared culture – Christianity – by which people made sense of their moral obligations. The battle in the seventeenth century was merely over which form of Christianity should prevail. Politics might be the arena of self-interest, but i

The religious imperative to which I have tried to give voice in these pages is the one that says: create, do not destroy, for it is my world you are destroying, my creatures you are killing. The only force equal to a fundamentalism of hate is a counter-fundamentalism of love.