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Heretics

Heretics

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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PhilosophyGifts & Stationery GeneralLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 1721002154
ISBN13: 9781721002153
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 11 2018
Pages: 82
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.17 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.02
Language: English
Heretics by Gilbert K. Chesterton. Heretics is a collection of 20 essays originally published by G.K. Chesterton in 1905. In his first essay, Chesterton describes his understanding of the words Orthodox and Heretic as they apply to, and have changed in, the modern period. Chesterton argues that in modernity, The word 'orthodoxy' not only no longer means being right; it practically means being wrong. He continues to write that society no longer tolerates a man's life philosophy or religion, yet is increasingly absorbed in art for art's sake. Nothing more strangely indicates an enormous and silent evil of modern society than the extraordinary use which is made nowadays of the word orthodox. In former days the heretic was proud of not being a heretic. It was the kingdoms of the world and the police and the judges who were heretics. He was orthodox. He had no pride in having rebelled against them; they had rebelled against him. The armies with their cruel security, the kings with their cold faces, the decorous processes of State, the reasonable processes of law-all these like sheep had gone astray.

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