Tag Archives: Enlightenment

Requiem For Polish Memory: Dissident Movement & True Enlightenment

Posted on March 17, 2013 by William Holland

This post could never do justice to how Poland’s own dissident movement was the demonstrative embodiment of a cultural singularity unknown in any other country. Polish Exceptionalism is Solidarity! Let me explain. Poland was never really in need of either … Continue reading →

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Alexis Tocqueville: How Revolutions Begin

Posted on March 15, 2013 by William Holland

Its clear from anyone who’s spent time studying Arnold Toynbee’s oeuvre (pronounced ‘you’ve-ray’ meaning, a body of work), that he was inspired from the work of Alexis Tocqueville, especially Tocqueville’s study of the origins of the French Revolution and its … Continue reading →

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What Has Athens To Do With Jerusalem?

Posted on August 14, 2011 by William Holland

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 →

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Huxley, Orwell & The Challenge Islam Faces

Posted on November 4, 2010 by William Holland

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 →

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Why England Succeeded In Possessing An Enlightened Economic Model Over Other Western Monarchies

Posted on August 7, 2010 by William Holland

Imprimus.  Latin for ‘ideas have consequences.’ For anyone who studied at University after circa 1985, you missed the greatest education curriculum ever produced since antiquity, namely the trivium and quatrivium.  Within either the trivium or quatrivium, if you studied any … Continue reading →

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A True Catholic Humanist: Gilbert Murray & The Imploding West

Posted on June 28, 2010 by William Holland

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 →

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The Domestic Challenge Facing The West

Posted on June 24, 2010 by William Holland

Just what exactly is a culture war? It’s about competing forms of authority, and how they inform and shape human freedom. Today that war is waged within the once sacred, confined domain of the family, sexual ethics, law, technology, even … Continue reading →

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Karol Wojtyla: The Challenge of the Enlightenment & The Death of Kant

Posted on June 15, 2010 by William Holland

The vast majority of Catholics simply do not understand a very serious truth about their own faith:  it fell to the Church to take up the challenge posed by the Enlightenment, namely, the nature, authority and scope of reason.  After … Continue reading →

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