Geburtsdatum | Samstag, 12. Oktober 1889 |
Geburtsort | Hay Castle, Hay-on-Wye, Brecknockshire, Wales |
Todesort | Devon |
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Beschreibung | Christopher Henry Dawson FBA (12. Oktober 1889 - 25. Mai 1970) war ein britischer unabhängiger Gelehrter, der zahlreiche Bücher zur Kulturgeschichte und zum Christentum schrieb. Dawson wurde als "der größte englischsprachige katholische Historiker des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts" bezeichnet. Das akademische Jahr 1988-1989 am Europakolleg wurde zu Dawsons Ehren benannt. |
As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.
And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be forced to create a new official faith and new moral principles which will be binding on its citizens.
The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms.
You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for.
