01-25-2008, 10:38 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Machiavelli and the Decay of Western Civilization
by Prof Paul Eidelberg
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
However, concomitant with the moral decline of the individual, there has been an outward improvement in the character of society. This dichotomy is not paradoxical. <b>The progress of science and technology, the hallmark of Western civilization, was actually the result of egoism or moral decline (facilitated by Machiavelliâs corrosive attack on Greco-Christian morality).</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
by Prof Paul Eidelberg
Freeman Center For Strategic Studies
However, concomitant with the moral decline of the individual, there has been an outward improvement in the character of society. This dichotomy is not paradoxical. <b>The progress of science and technology, the hallmark of Western civilization, was actually the result of egoism or moral decline (facilitated by Machiavelliâs corrosive attack on Greco-Christian morality).</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->