Professor of English and Rhetoric, author, thinker, Platonist.
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That series of subversive events which raised the middle class to a position of dominance allowed it not only to prescribe the conditions of labor but also to frame the world of discourse of economics.
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The object is not to say that labor is more or less to blame than other groups of society; it is rather to show that when egotism becomes dominant and men are applauded for looking to their own interest first, statesmanship and philosophy must leave the picture.
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Richard Weaver retweeted
“I would maintain that modern man is a parricide. He has taken up arms against, and he has effectually slain, what former men have regarded with filial veneration. He has not been conscious of crime but has … regarded his action as a proof of virtue.”
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Richard Weaver retweeted
What the defenders of present civilization usually mean when they say that modern man is better educated than his forebears is that he is literate in larger numbers.
When a man chooses to follow something that is arbitrary as far as the uses of the world go, he’s performing a feat of abstraction; he’s recognizing the noumenal, and it’s this, and not that self-flattery which takes the form of a study of his own achievements, that dignifies him
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What the defenders of present civilization usually mean when they say that modern man is better educated than his forebears is that he is literate in larger numbers.
The literacy can be demonstrated; yet we are compelled, after a hundred years of experience, to echo Nietzsche’s bitter observation: “Everyone being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking.”
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The defeat of logical realism in the great medieval debate was the crucial event in the history of Western culture; from this flowed those acts which issue now in modern decadence.
Modern Crisis: From Nominalism to Civilisational Decline
“Adaequatio realis mentis et vitae… which continues to evolve”—Garrigou-Lagrange
The triumph of nominalism over Thomistic realism in the late Middle Ages, by denying real universals and reducing them to mere names…
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For four centuries every man has been not only his own priest but his own professor of ethics, and the consequence is an anarchy which threatens even that minimum consensus of value necessary to the political state.
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There is ground for declaring that modern man has become a moral idiot. So few are those who care to examine their lives, or to accept the rebuke which comes of admitting that our present state may be a fallen state.
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Richard Weaver retweeted
Modern Crisis: From Nominalism to Civilisational Decline
“Adaequatio realis mentis et vitae… which continues to evolve”—Garrigou-Lagrange
The triumph of nominalism over Thomistic realism in the late Middle Ages, by denying real universals and reducing them to mere names…
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Richard Weaver retweeted
…and the broader secular consumerism that treats persons and cultures as malleable projects. As Richard Weaver observed, “The denial of universals carries with it the denial of everything transcending experience,” producing not progress but fragmentation, relativism, and…
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