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The Wretched of the Earth: The American Culture War
Liberals and Conservatives first became lables for political tendencies in the aftermath of the French Revolution. Like all polemical terms their meaning and usage shifted around in partisan debate, but the philosophical distinction between them was settled by the mid-nineteenth … Continue reading
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Tagged American Revolution, Conservative, Edmund Burke, French Revolution, Republican, Revolution
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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
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Partisan Humanism, Ideology & The Limits Of Political Passion
Edmund Burke and Lord Acton were the first to meaningfully engage the eclipse of Christian transcendence that was the French Revolution. Many other writers throughout the West have done the same in articulating the humanism that embodied Soviet Marxism: Raymond … Continue reading
Posted in Adolf Hitler, Alex Tocqueville, Ethics, International Relations, Islam, John Paul II, Morality, Philosophy, Politics, Raymond Aron, Reagan, Satan/Evil
Tagged Acton, Bourbon, Churchill, Dmitri Bystrolotov, Edmund Burke, Evil, Feast of Immortals, French Revolution, Humanism, Limits Political Passion, Markus Wolf, Marxian, Northwestern University Press, Political Passion, Purge, Raymond Aron, Romeo, Satanic Presence, Soviet, Stalin, Stasi, Tocqueville
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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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