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Category Archives: Ethics
Our Political Problems Are Moral
When Lev Davidovich Bronshtein (pen name Leon Trotsky) wrote about homo Soveiticus, the new breed of man born under the pall of terror; a subject of tyrannical social engineering by the State, he was referencing a utopian conviction that contemporary capitalist states now … Continue reading
Human Capital & The Challenge of OUR Time
Abraham Maslow spent his life discerning interior trends that motivate the human person toward a unity not seen in other mammals; a unity of personality, toward spontaneous expressiveness, toward full responsibility, toward full individuality; an unrepeatable identity. Of seeing truth … Continue reading
French Catholic Priest Beheaded in Syria: Francois Murad Martyred
Last Wednesday evening, after having being taken captive/kidnapped by Sunni terror squads in southern Syrian town of Gassanieh, Father Francois Murad was beheaded in front of children, martyred for his faith; his identity as Christian. We should note that the … Continue reading
Specialization & The Cowardice It Produces: Academic Pusillanimity
Arnold Toynbee’s “Study of History” has extensive notation on the impact that is specialization. Typically, specialization has no consequences, except when you live in an age of disruption like ours! Specialization has social, political consequences. Any brief look at writers … Continue reading
How Western Civilization Triumphed Over Every Civilization
Teaching Aristotle or Plato is often hard if not downright difficult, especially when you try to cover the “epoch” between his time and ours. I mean something very specific. What underwrites Western Civilization is a Judeo-Christian ethic. Prior to this … Continue reading
Genocide, Francophile Africa & The Colonial Mind
Contemporary education is no longer capable of discerning nor appreciating the philosophical distinctions that reeled the ancient world, any person familiar with Patristic thought can indeed understand how Francophile Africa, specifically Rwanda became a conduit for genocide. Yes, the British … Continue reading
Posted in Empire, Ethics, Frontier, International Relations, Morality, Politics, Uncategorized
Tagged administrative law, Africa, colonial administration, Empire, ethnography, Fascism, Francophile Africa, Henry Main, indirect rule, Karuna Mantea, Natural Law, Puritan, race, Rwanda, satanic, sedentary, Sudan, Tribe
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Conrad Black: Militant Positivism & The Diversity Police
Two months ago ‘The New Criterion’ published an essay explaining the lynching that was done to Conrad Black in the name of ‘diversity’. I must admit that I remained perplexed until I read that essay, for I only remember what … Continue reading
Posted in Conservatism, Constitution, Ethics, Harry Jaffa, Supreme Court
Tagged Conrad Balck, Positivism
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The Wager: God & Tyranny
If the deaths of Kim Jong II, Christopher Hitchens and Vaclav Havel can be surmised briefly it is this: no mere Machiavellian calculus is sufficient concerning the scales by which men discern the movement of Nations. The end of the … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, International Relations, John Paul II, Morality, Politics, Uncategorized
Tagged Havel, Hitchens, Kim Jong II, Stalin
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The Primacy Of Samuel Beckett In The Modernist Oeuvre
The term ‘modernism’ is one of those words that conjures up various meanings to be almost impossible to describe given its depth and swath of credence among disciplines. It is only distinctly understood from within the house of orthodox theology … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Literature, Philosophy
Tagged ancient stoics, honore balzac, Literature, marcel proust, Modernism, paul valery, Samuel Beckett, t s eliot ezra pound, term modernism
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The Limits Of Political Accommodation: Herodian Strategy For Survival In An Age Of Absolutes
The Roman Catholic Church has a very long distinguished history of playing a Machiavellian hand with secular leaders. Witness the long tenure of John Paul II in Poland regarding both his strategy to break the Warsaw Pact along with hardened … Continue reading
Posted in Abortion, Ethics, John Paul II, Morality, Politics
Tagged Abortion Pill, Absolutism, American Left, Food & Drug Administration, Fordham University, Health & Human Services, Herodian Strategy, John Courtney Murray, John Paul II, Kathleen Sebelius, Morning After Pill, Nominalism
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