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Category Archives: Harry Jaffa
What Has Athens To Do With Jerusalem?
The North African Catholic Church throughout the last remaining centuries before the fall of Rome was the most fertile intellectual region before the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787. I don’t say that in a cavalier way, for the Church … Continue reading
Posted in Alex Tocqueville, Antiquity, Arab Spring, Conservatism, Constitution, Ethics, Harry Jaffa, Identity Development, International Relations, Islam, Morality, Politics, Theology
Tagged Abstractions, Alexis de Tocqueville, Athens & Jerusalem, Bismark, Catholic Absolutism, Cicero, Code of Justinian, Edmund Burke, Enlightenment, Faith & Reason, Forum, Founding Fathers, France, Islam, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Justinian, Liberty, Locke, machiavelli, Mary Ann Glendon, Max Weber, Ratio, Reflections on Revolution in France, Reign of Terror, Roman Civil Law, Tertullian, Tower, Tribonian
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 Promise Of Secular Life: Dystopic Mania For A Shapeless Freedom
Most Catholics can remember when Karol Wojtyla (John Paul II) began criticizing the foundations of our capitalist ethic in admonishing the wests embrace of materialism. He challenged us to become more by having less. As a poet he understood the … Continue reading
Posted in Alex Tocqueville, Ethics, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Harry Jaffa, International Relations, John Paul II, Kant, Morality, Politics, Pope Benedict XVI, Theology
Tagged Coercion, Consumption, freedom, Idealism, John Paul II, Kant, Moral, Secularism
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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“The sleep of reason breeds monsters.” … Continue reading
Posted in China, Conservatism, Constitution, Harry Jaffa, International Relations, Islam, Middle East Peace, Money, Morality, Poets, Raymond Aron, Reagan, Sex Abuse Crisis Church, Sexual Ethics, Shakespeare, Sociology, Terrorism
Tagged Monsters, Reason
Charles Darwin & Harry Jaffa: Evolution & Constitutional Government
The attempt, inherent in Darwinism, is to reduce man’s humanity to the outcome of a blind struggle of material forces denies, in effect, the ground in nature and reason of man’s personal and political freedom. Harry Jaffa is the foremost … Continue reading
In Memory of Eric Voegelin: Politics In Service of Faith
“When impetuous young men are repelled by the vulgarity of democracy, Plato can point out to them that energy, pride, and will to rule can indeed establish the despotism of a spiritually corrupt elite, but not a just government; and … Continue reading
A New Beginning
Every life begins with great promise. How this promise grows depends on our willingness to accept the challenge of grace in all its tragedy, comedy and unique wonder. Every person knows what fearful destiny waits us; namely death. Nevertheless, in … Continue reading
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