The Politics of Truth and Other Untimely Essays: The Crisis of Civic ConsciousnessUniversity of Missouri Press, 1999 - 235 Seiten This volume explores the historical and theoretical underpinnings of personal liberty and free government and provides an analysis of the crisis of civic consciousness endangering both. |
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... theories were applied in ruling societies. We must agree . . . that Dostoevsky's diagnosis of the dangers implicit in the socialism of his day can be read as prophetic of the human and spiritual devastation caused by the twentieth ...
... theories were applied in ruling societies. We must agree . . . that Dostoevsky's diagnosis of the dangers implicit in the socialism of his day can be read as prophetic of the human and spiritual devastation caused by the twentieth ...
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... theory on the basis of Greek and Christian philosophy and his analysis of modernity (especially in The New Science of Politics and the first volumes of Order and History), as well as F. A. Hayek's emphases on rule of law and personal ...
... theory on the basis of Greek and Christian philosophy and his analysis of modernity (especially in The New Science of Politics and the first volumes of Order and History), as well as F. A. Hayek's emphases on rule of law and personal ...
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... theory of the latest victims of socialism aspires tocommunities formedby friendship andvirtue so as to ameliorate, if it cannot eliminate, the ruthless clash of interests, factions,andpartiescharacteristicofmoderndemocratic politics and ...
... theory of the latest victims of socialism aspires tocommunities formedby friendship andvirtue so as to ameliorate, if it cannot eliminate, the ruthless clash of interests, factions,andpartiescharacteristicofmoderndemocratic politics and ...
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... theory of human nature shrewdlyinstitutionalizedwithinsightfulattentiontohistoricalfacts and social and cultural conditions. But the quest for balance and reason is a matter of constant adjustment and compromise. Otherwise, public ...
... theory of human nature shrewdlyinstitutionalizedwithinsightfulattentiontohistoricalfacts and social and cultural conditions. But the quest for balance and reason is a matter of constant adjustment and compromise. Otherwise, public ...
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... theory of politics. While we have discussed and debated matters of weight and consequence, and may not have agreed on everything, a thread of consensus has so far emerged that is as instructive for America as it is for the Czech ...
... theory of politics. While we have discussed and debated matters of weight and consequence, and may not have agreed on everything, a thread of consensus has so far emerged that is as instructive for America as it is for the Czech ...
Inhalt
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Religious Liberty and Religion in the American Founding | 65 |
Sir John Fortescue as Political Philosopher | 95 |
Nihilism and Resistance | 121 |
Eric Voegelin a Conservative? | 139 |
Notes | 171 |
Index | 221 |
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Seite 52 - It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
Seite 51 - KNOW then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great : With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest...
Seite 93 - I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that "an unjust law is no law at all.
Seite 51 - Created half to rise and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all, Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled, The glory, jest, and riddle of the world...
Seite 99 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labour to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
Seite 87 - Because we hold it for a fundamental and undeniable truth " that religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence.
Seite 51 - With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between ; in doubt to act, or rest ; In doubt to deem himself a God or beast ; In doubt his mind or body to prefer ; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err...
Seite 51 - Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from Infinite to thee, From thee to nothing.