The Politics of Truth and Other Untimely Essays: The Crisis of Civic ConsciousnessThis 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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... fact powerfully argues both for the essential importance of a tension toward transcendent divine Being—"the Laws of Nature and Nature's God"—in a stable regime dedicated to liberty and for the potential adaptability of some Anglo ...
... fact powerfully argues both for the essential importance of a tension toward transcendent divine Being—"the Laws of Nature and Nature's God"—in a stable regime dedicated to liberty and for the potential adaptability of some Anglo ...
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... fact, evidence is rapidly accumulating that this process is far advanced in those societies where totalitarian political movements have been in power for an extended period of time. In the Soviet Union, for example, ideology has become ...
... fact, evidence is rapidly accumulating that this process is far advanced in those societies where totalitarian political movements have been in power for an extended period of time. In the Soviet Union, for example, ideology has become ...
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... facts before us, this development makes as dramatic a statement as history affords of the spiritual bankruptcy of Marxism-Leninism and of Marxist intellectuals whose toadying propped up the communist regimes of the region. It is ...
... facts before us, this development makes as dramatic a statement as history affords of the spiritual bankruptcy of Marxism-Leninism and of Marxist intellectuals whose toadying propped up the communist regimes of the region. It is ...
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... fact that they are over 200 years old. They inspire us to be citizens. When Thomas Jefferson wrote that "governments are instituted among men, derivingtheir just powers from theconsentof the governed," it was a simple and important act ...
... fact that they are over 200 years old. They inspire us to be citizens. When Thomas Jefferson wrote that "governments are instituted among men, derivingtheir just powers from theconsentof the governed," it was a simple and important act ...
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... fact, the kind experienced in central and eastern Europe over recent anguished decades, may soon be as extinct as the dinosaur as a political system of choice—unless (as Solzhenitsyn says) men again fall into the totalitarian trap. The ...
... fact, the kind experienced in central and eastern Europe over recent anguished decades, may soon be as extinct as the dinosaur as a political system of choice—unless (as Solzhenitsyn says) men again fall into the totalitarian trap. The ...
Contents
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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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Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.