Book contents
- Confusion in the West
- Confusion in the West
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preamble
- 1 Confusion Introduced
- 2 Athens, Rome, Jerusalem
- 3 From Constantine to Henry VIII
- 4 Man Enlightened
- 5 Totalitarian Man
- 6 Scientistic Humanism
- 7 World War, Bureaucracy, Consumerism
- 8 Sexual Liberation and the Subversion of the Person
- 9 Personalism, Virtue Ethics and the Original Tradition
- 10 Culture, What Culture? 2021
- Selected Further Reading
- Index
8 - Sexual Liberation and the Subversion of the Person
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 November 2022
- Confusion in the West
- Confusion in the West
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preamble
- 1 Confusion Introduced
- 2 Athens, Rome, Jerusalem
- 3 From Constantine to Henry VIII
- 4 Man Enlightened
- 5 Totalitarian Man
- 6 Scientistic Humanism
- 7 World War, Bureaucracy, Consumerism
- 8 Sexual Liberation and the Subversion of the Person
- 9 Personalism, Virtue Ethics and the Original Tradition
- 10 Culture, What Culture? 2021
- Selected Further Reading
- Index
Summary
Despite Britain being finally bankrupted and its Empire soon to be dispersed, and while Eastern Europeans were sold down their various rivers to Moscow, in Western Europe and North America, the immediate moral and social scene after World War II appeared at first chastened but not radically changed from its state of inter-war complacency. Certainly there arose a feeling in many lands, and immediately in the United Kingdom, that the old social injustices must be remedied: this time the peace as well as the war be won. The reformist Attlee government swept away some long-standing social evils, most notably by the construction of a National Health Service.
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- Confusion in the WestRetrieving Tradition in the Modern and Post-Modern World, pp. 196 - 214Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022