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Identity & Personhood In Ancient Rome: The Specificity Of Christian Ethics vs. The Eros Of Selfish Property
This blog has dealt sufficiently with the concept of ‘The Specificity of Christian Ethics’ at great length, it cannot be ignored how secular life itself is a perversion of Christianity. This insight will move into greater relief as the West … Continue reading
Posted in Abortion, Antiquity, Ethics, Identity Development, John Paul II, Sexual Ethics, Theology
Tagged Dasen, Henry the Navigator, Human Identity, Islam, Laes, Legal Positivism, Mediterranean, Personhood, Pincer Movement, Positivism, Roman Childhood, Roman Empire, Sexual Ethics, Silver Mines, specificity of christian ethics, Statius
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Clausewitz vs. Sun Tzu
Their is an old saying at West Point: ‘beginners study tactics, amateurs study strategy, but only the best study logistics’. Logistics being the formal study of how one achieves a goal. Their is not always symmetry between these competing claims … Continue reading
Posted in Antiquity, Arnold Toynbee, China, Ethics, International Relations, Kant, Morality, Politics, Raymond Aron, Sun Tzu, Theology, Uncategorized
Tagged Antoine Henri Jumini, Art of War, Christopher Bassford, Clausewitz, Raymond Aron, specificity of christian ethics, Sun-Tzu, Taoism, Toynbee, Vo Nguyen Giap
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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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Why Study Ancient Greece Or Rome? The Significance Of Antiquity & The Collapse Of Empire
From the birth of Rome to Augustus’ final counterinsurgency program known as the Pax Romana, Rome had been at continuous war for over five hundred years. The architecture of such a foreign policy was a maxim Augustus bequeathed to his … Continue reading
Posted in Conservatism, Eric Voegelin, Ethics, Hans Urs von Balthasar, International Relations, Morality, Near East, Perils Of Specialization, Politics, Uncategorized
Tagged Augustus, Caesar, Demise of Antiquity, Empire, Eric Voegelin, Greek, Pax Romana, Rome, specificity of christian ethics, Spiritual failure
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The Specificity of Christian Ethics
Tremendous ink has been spilled since the publication of Veritatis Splendor. It is considered to be Pope John Paul II most elaborate thinking on theological categories concerning moral judgement, the development of conscience and a host of many other far … Continue reading
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