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Written by Joseph Ratzinger shortly before he became Pope Benedict XVI, Christianity and the Crisis of Cultures looks at the growing conflict of cultures evident in the Western world. The West faces a deadly contradiction of its own making, he contends. Terrorism is on the rise. Technological advances of the West, employed by people who have cut themselves off from the moral wisdom of the past,...

that man ought not to be treated any differently from them. We asked two questions: whether the rationalistic (positivist) philosophy is strictly rational, and therefore universally valid, and whether it is complete. Is it enough on its own? May, or indeed must, it abandon its historical roots to the sphere of the dead past, that is, to the sphere of that which can claim no more than a subjective validity? Our answer to all these questions must be an unambiguous No. This philosophy expresses, not
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