Professor of English and Rhetoric, author, thinker, Platonist.
Joined October 2017
- Tweets1.5K
- Following674
- Followers516
- Likes285
Richard Weaver retweeted
Read Richard Weaver. Pretty please 🙏
1819news.com/news/item/allen…
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.”
—Richard Weaver
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.
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…
1/6
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…
5/6
Richard Weaver retweeted
"A culture is a complex of values, and a value is a preference. A preference means that one thing is chosen and another is rejected or placed in a secondary position... A culture is a structural unity; it is not an indiscriminate collection of things."
-Richard Weaver
Richard Weaver retweeted
"The progressive is a man who cannot stand to look at what he is, and so must always be looking at what he is going to be."
-John Gould Fletcher
Richard Weaver retweeted
"Rural life forces man to look at the hierarchy of nature and the cycle of the seasons, fostering an instinctive humility before God. The modern city, by contrast, is a monument to human arrogance that breeds secularism and revolution."
-Mel Bradford
Richard Weaver retweeted
One of the obvious and easy ways to take leave of oneself is to forget, to cease to hold in consciousness what one has been. This is personal annihilation, for no man exists really except through that mysterious storehouse of his remembered acts and his formed personality.
Richard Weaver retweeted
Modern Age recently published an appreciation of Bradford: modernagejournal.com/what-me…
Richard Weaver retweeted
"Civilization is essentially a struggle for self-control, and the agrarian life offers the best discipline for that struggle, because it teaches man his true place in the universe."
-Richard Weaver
Richard Weaver retweeted
"The agrarian mind, which is the mind of a lover, feels a gratefulness to the soil, which it seeks to protect; the industrial mind, which is the mind of a destroyer, looks upon the soil as something to be pillaged for profit."
-Richard Weaver
Richard Weaver retweeted
“We are born into a hierarchical structure: family, folk, fatherland. To live piously is to accept one’s place in this structure, which entails favoring the near over the far.”
Yours truly writes: chroniclesmagazine.org/view/…
Richard Weaver retweeted
“I see no way to sum up the offense of modern man except to say that he is impious.”
~~Richard Weaver (@IdeasHC), Ideas Have Consequences, chapter IX: Piety and Justice
Richard Weaver retweeted
A great day at @ISI with 400 students and alums. “Ideas (still) have consequences!”
#Conservative #Tradition #College #Homecoming @IdeasHC
Richard Weaver retweeted
Already available on our free app: subsplash.com/theabbevillein…
The @AbbevilleInst ought to upload the late Aaron Wolf’s talk from 2019 to their podcast channel. It would probably get a decent number of downloads. Wolf (@frogmorton) had a loyal following. @BrionMcClanahan