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Book: The Consequences of Ideas: Understanding the Concepts That Shaped Our World
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  1. R.C. Sproul _ The Consequences of Ideas:

    The inauthentic person seeks safety in normality. He denies his uniqueness by becoming "average." In
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  2. R.C. Sproul _ The Consequences of Ideas:

    For Plato, knowledge that is restricted to the material world is at best mere opinion and at worst ignorance. The task of education is to lead people out of darkness into light, out of the cave and its shadows and into the noonday sun. The Latin term educare describes this process. Its root meaning is "to lead out of," as the root ducere means "to lead." We
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  3. R.C. Sproul _ The Consequences of Ideas:

    When Adolf Hitler came to power, the Nazis were not content to find a "final solution" for Jews and Gypsies. They also sought to eliminate intellectuals whose ideas were at odds with the "values" of the Third Reich. My friend was removed from his position. When he spoke out against the Nazis, his wife and all but one of his children were arrested and executed. He escaped from Germany with his young daughter.
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