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Who Is My Neighbor?: An Anthology In Natural Relations Paperback – January 9, 2021

by Thomas Achord (Author), Darrell Dow (Author)

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From the Foreword: Some time ago the West has lost its way in the order of things. This Way was a long known set of experiences concerning how the world operates and on being human. The modern mind imagines such a grand diversity of interpretations of these once-given axioms. With such variance comes uncertainty of truth and skepticism of knowledge claims. These, in turn, misdirect our political and social life from objective and formalized to subjective and relativized. Once strong structures guided our being in the world, but now all that is solid melts into air. C.S. Lewis’ Abolition Of Man argued against this pluralist, subjectivized view, claiming that all humans have known some things to be universally true. This universal Way he called the natural law or the Tao. Once known to all humans, modern sentiments challenge this Way, deny it, and replace it with new, abstract ideas of theory or Right. More recently, late modernity replaces it with nothing but perceived reality. To prove this universal Way and lead us back to it, the appendix of Lewis’ book contains an index of universally acknowledged norms among all human societies. Our present work picks up just one of the themes in his work and continues it more exhaustively in an area particularly under attack in our time: natural social relations. About the Authors: Thomas Achord lives in the rural South with his wife and four children. He has an M.Div. from Southern Seminary and is the headmaster of a Christian Classical school. He has published “The Soul And The City”, an anthology on political and moral thought. He is also the co-host of Ars Politica podcast. Darrell Dow lives with his wife and children in flyover country. His formal education is in history and economics and he presently works as a statistician. Darrell has contributed to various politically-right magazines and journals. You can find his work at Chronicles, American Remnant, and Antiwar.

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January 9, 2021
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7.44 x 1.32 x 9.69 inches
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08SH1CD7C
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published (January 9, 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 584 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8592680533
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.81 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.44 x 1.32 x 9.69 inches

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Jacob Lee

What Was Lost Has Been Found

Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2022

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What was once a common feeling in the minds of most people has fallen under hard times, at least in the West. Natural affections, though the bane of Neo-Babelists, ties together the good, the true, and the beautiful.

It encompasses the affections we have for our folk and our people, our patch of woods, and all the sights and smells that make us “at home.”

Who is My Neighbor is an anthology that deserves a special place on the family bookshelf. Let go of the lies of atomized individualism, let the past teach us to love our people and love our place once more.

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Jon Fiala

Love your people, love your place

Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2022

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Great work. We live in a time of racial egalitarianism, and the authors did some heavy lifting to call us back to the orthodoxy of our church fathers. We have a people and a place, and we should live in light of that today.

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Momma Bear

Comprehensive

Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2021

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A thorough and comprehensive anthology examining an important subset of issues. If you tire of seeing intellectuals and scribblers (including pastors and religious academics) wailing about the evils of the family, nation and other natural and organic institutions that make civic and political life possible, get this book. Hear your ancestors speak and be reminded that you are not alone.

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Pooh bear

Call back to natural love

Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2021

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We seem to have forgotten our humanity in the last century and especially over the last decade . It is good to be drawn back to the natural affection that was once taken for granted , almost lost and with thoughtful men and books like this can be restored

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ruth

Excellent read!

Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2021

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Great book!

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Paleo Pundit

Invaluable Reference

Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2022

The headmaster of a classical Christian school has teamed up with a statistician to collect and sort thousands of quotations pertaining to human relationships from myriad religious, political, and historic figures. The result is an invaluable reference for patriots with an intellectual bent, which shows how nationality, neighborhood, and kinship reflect natural law. The book’s historical quotes and references demonstrate that many of the sentiments now stigmatized as unthinkably “nativist” or “racist” have been taken for granted in every civilization, from classical China to ancient Israel to medieval France.

We discover, for example, Cicero cautioning the resident alien “under no condition to meddle in the politics of a country not his own.” Aristotle warns that “the reception of strangers in colonies, either at the time of their foundation or afterwards, has generally produced revolution.”

Achord and Dow have also compiled Christian sources from St. Augustine to John Calvin on the subject of man’s ties through kinship, as well as the thoughts of America’s Founding Fathers. His invocation of equality notwithstanding, Thomas Jefferson feared that “the importation of foreigners” would “warp and bias” America, rendering it “a heterogeneous, incoherent, distracted mass,” and so make it “more turbulent, less happy, less strong.” On this question of multiculturalism, at least, the sage of Monticello and his nemesis, Alexander Hamilton, could agree. “The influx of foreigners must, therefore, tend to produce a heterogeneous compound,” Hamilton said, “to change and corrupt the national spirit; to complicate and confound public opinion; to introduce foreign propensities.” George Washington counseled his countrymen “to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world” and to have “as little political connection as possible” with other nations.

Perhaps the most bitterly amusing and ironic quotes come from 20th century Democrats, who assured critics the Immigration Act of 1965 would “not upset the ethnic mix of our society,” as Senator Edward Kennedy soothingly put it. Nowadays it is forbidden to observe how wrong (or dishonest) Kennedy was, much less to frankly discuss the implications of our society’s ongoing ethnic transformation. It is to be hoped that through works like Who Is My Neighbor? at least a few people attain some idea of what the much-abused word community actually means.

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Jfarris

Natural Relations for Contemporary Reflection

Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2021

With the rise of classical western liberalism, we have seen a shift away from what was once a traditional honor system with its value placed on family, society, and nation. Now we see a radical egalitarianism permeating the systems of society and government to the detriment of those great conditions that once sustained Western civilization. As we fracture and bend away from the norms that once caused us to flourish and the moral standards that aided in its maintenance, it is helpful to see a revival of interest in natural law, the family, and nationhood that is carefully considered. With the contributions to inter-related subjects, Achord and Dow provide us with a massive resource that will serve those interested in re-discovering the resources from the riches of Western Civilization. Organized according to time period, religion, and various denominational perspectives, Achord and Dow provide us with the largest collection of writings from the vast set of wisdom in our heritage. These are intended to foster additional reflection and re-deployment in contemporary research.

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P. Cromwell

What is natural and good?

Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2021

This book is an anthology or collection of a wide variety of texts that create a picture of what is normative and good in human relations, based on an idea by CS Lewis in 'The Abolition of Man' in which he argued that there are things that all humans throughout history have universally known to be good or true. Things like courage and love for family.

It's a great collection because it provides an anchor to reality, in contrast with the zeitgeist of modernity where we are increasingly being pushed to adopt alien and unnatural modes of thinking and behavior as normative.

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