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Category Archives: Eric Voegelin
The Social Crisis of the Working Class
Charles Murray of the American Enterprise Institute in Washington remains the single most significant sociologist since the passing of Seymour Martin Lipset. His latest is titled ‘The State of White America’. This is a startling account of reversal of America’s … Continue reading
Posted in Alex Tocqueville, Conservatism, Constitution, Education, Eric Voegelin, Ethics, Feminization Of Men, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Harry Jaffa, Identity Development, International Relations, Islam, John Paul II, Marriage Preparation, Morality, Pope Benedict XVI, Prayer, Sexual Ethics, Sociology, The Demise Of The Black Family, Theology
Tagged alex tocqueville, Charles Murray, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Francis Grund, Judeo Christian Morality, marriage, Morality, Sexual Ethics, social capital, social crisis of working class, State of White America, unwanted pregnancy, upper middle class, Working class
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The True Spirit Of A Counterrevolutionary: Whittaker Chambers A Tormented Man
Most readers of this very blog are not old enough to remember the vapid ideological atmosphere that gripped the 1930’s as examined throughout the writings of Norman Podhoretz or Irving Kristol. Both men ruthlessly examined the shape and commitment of … Continue reading
Posted in Eric Voegelin, Ethics, Identity Development, International Relations, Islam, John Paul II, Morality, Philosophy, Politics, Raymond Aron, Satan/Evil, Terrorism, Theology
Tagged Atheist Humanism, Communism, Dostoevsky, Islam, Militant Islam, Screams, Trotsky, Whittaker Chambers, Witness
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Huxley, Orwell & The Challenge Islam Faces
Electronic media decentralizes. It permits every single individual to be a center without margins. There is no analogue in the natural world that can challenge its scope or authority. The problem is when we permit such innovation to eclipse the … Continue reading
Posted in Eric Voegelin, International Relations, Islam, Israel, Middle East Peace, Near East, Politics, Terrorism, Xavier Zubiri
Tagged Challenge facing Islam, Cordova, Enlightenment, Fascist Islam, Huxley, Israel, Militant Islam, Ontic, Ontology, Orwell, Personhood, Philosophy, Reformation, Xavier Zubiri
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John Paul II: The Defeat Of Modernity & A New Birth Of Freedom
Raymond Aron, Isaiah Berlin, Winston Churchill and Pope John Paul II had much in common. Aron and the French left were ardent in their support of a secular humanism that had its birth in 1789, Berlin was a deracinated Jew … Continue reading
Posted in Arnold Toynbee, Eric Voegelin, John Paul II, Morality, Theology, Uncategorized
Tagged Huxley, Isaiah Berlin, Liberty, Modernity, Morality, Orwell, Pope John Paul II, Raymond Aron, Winston Churchill
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Fascist Islam: History & Prospects
Although Malise Ruthven is credited with coining the term ‘Islamofascism’ while writing for the British Independent in 1990, the term was coined by Maxine Rodinson. Nevertheless, we have throughout the west a vast intellectual reserve providing antecedents for us to … Continue reading
Posted in Alex Tocqueville, Arnold Toynbee, Constitution, Eric Voegelin, Ethics, Hans Urs von Balthasar, International Relations, Islam, John Paul II, Kant, Morality, Near East, Oriana Fallachi, Politics, Pope Benedict XVI, Sexual Ethics, Sociology, Terrorism, Theology, Uncategorized
Tagged Fascism, Hitler, Idealism, Kant, liberalism, Malise Ruthven, Maxine Rodinson, Pope John Paul II, Sharia Law, Totalitarianism
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George Orwell & Aldous Huxley Fathers of Doublespeak: A Clarion Call To Church & Artists
Both Orwell (real name Eric Blair) and Huxley left a substantial body of work that bore out the conviction that modern man was incapable of coping, resolving the demands of his time. Other writers, less artistic yet still formidable in … Continue reading
Posted in Alex Tocqueville, Arnold Toynbee, Conservatism, Eric Voegelin, Hans Urs von Balthasar, International Relations, Islam, John Paul II, Morality, Politics, Pope Benedict XVI, Raymond Aron, Reagan, Sociology, solzhenitzen, Theology, Uncategorized
Tagged Andre Malraux, Churchill, Europe, Francios Mauriac, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gaudium et Spes, Huxley, Ignatio Ellacuria, James Joyce, John Paul II, John XXIII, Orwell, Raymond Aron, Roosevelt, Samuel Beckett, Second Vatican Council, Solzhenitsyn, specificity of christian ethics, Truman, Vaclav Haval, WWII
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Christ Or Kung Fu: A Historical Contrast Of Growth
I’ve studied and taught Chinese (Sinic) civilization with enough rigor so as to provide some insight into how one can approach and therefore discern the enduring contribution of both Confucius and Lao Tse; both being the authorities on Confuciansim and … Continue reading
Posted in Alex Tocqueville, Arnold Toynbee, China, Conservatism, Constitution, Education, Eric Voegelin, Ethics, Frontier, International Relations, Kant, Morality, Near East, Politics, Sun Tzu, Uncategorized
Tagged Beijing, China, Church, Comparative Civilizations, Confucius, Frontier, Kant, Lao Tzu, Luther, Rome, Warring States Period
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A True Catholic Humanist: Gilbert Murray & The Imploding West
Gilbert Murray is not often thought of being Roman Catholic, I remain unsure of his personal affections regarding the sources of contemporary Catholicism; he remained throughout his life a very deep public man of Britain, throughly engaged in the issues … Continue reading
Posted in Alex Tocqueville, Arnold Toynbee, Conservatism, Education, Eric Voegelin, Ethics, Hans Urs von Balthasar, International Relations, Islam, John Paul II, Middle East Peace, Morality, Near East, Perils Of Specialization, Politics, Raymond Aron, Satan/Evil, Theology, Uncategorized
Tagged Calvinism, Catholic Church Independence, Determinism, Edmund Burke, Enlightenment, Gilbert Murray, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Henri De Lubac, Kissenger, Lincoln, Matthew Arnold, Protestant Reformation, Raymond Aron, Satanism, Victorian Ethos
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Civilizational Growth Or Decline: Technique, Expansion, Finding The Criteria For Intelligibility Of Civilizations
It remains out of vogue in our age of political correctness to speak of either growth or decline of civilizations. But I do believe that their are criteria to discover a field of intelligibility from which to study and determine … Continue reading
Posted in Alex Tocqueville, Arnold Toynbee, China, Conservatism, Constitution, Education, Eric Voegelin, Ethics, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Harry Jaffa, International Relations, John Paul II, Morality, Near East, Perils Of Specialization, Politics, Raymond Aron, Shakespeare, Sun Tzu, Theology, Uncategorized
Tagged Ancient Empires, Assyria, Classical Greece, Demise Growth Civilization, Expansion, Geographic, Herodotus, Peloponnesian War, Shakespeare Tragedies, Technique, Thucydides, Toynbee
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The Causes Of State Terror: 1789, Russia, Rawanda, The Vatican & American Exceptionalism
The ‘Reign of Terror’ that culminated in the French Revolution (1789), the Russian ‘Red Terror’ of Lenin and Stalin, African genocide in Rawanda, Fidel Castro, Pol Pot, and legions of other rulers have embraced violence for political ends. Where was … Continue reading
Posted in Alex Tocqueville, Arnold Toynbee, China, Constitution, Eric Voegelin, Harry Jaffa, International Relations, John Paul II, Morality, Politics, Raymond Aron, Satan/Evil, Theology
Tagged 1789 France, American Exceptionalism, Engels, Hegel, Marx, Marxism, Pol Pot, Protestant Reformation, Rawanda, Russia, Secularism, Stalin, State Terror, Utopian
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