Speech to the European Nations (Mini-Classic)

Author: (French) Benda, translated by She Biping
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Publishing Date: 2005-05-01
Features: This book attempts to review the history of unified Europe from the Eastern Roman Empire to the 20th century, nearly 1,500 years, and points out that their failures were mainly due to the lack of the "idea of Europe." To build Europe, a moral value system must be formed, which becomes the important mission of intellectuals. At the same time, it praises the medieval intellectuals' attachment to the abstract concept of the Roman Empire and criticizes the humanists who advocate the sovereignty of nations, betraying the cause of European unification. It calls on European educators and intellectuals to shoulder their historical mission, abandon nationalism, and return to Plato's theology and idealism, thereby building a unified Europe. "Europe will be a stage on which God's great work is realized on earth."