Humanism as Worship
Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was [...]
On State and Society: The Bureaucratic Death of Culture
“What has been so apparent in the modern history of the family will be no less apparent in the future histories of profession, university, labor union, and all other forms of association in our culture. Deprive these entities of the authorities over their members through increasing centralization of political power in society, and these associations, [...]
Law as Empathy, or: Natural Man’s Need for Society
Law requires faith. Man must be faithful in the institution of law and in his contracted brethren with whom he shares the empathy of petition — namely, that they share the common bond of having signed the social contract and agreed with each other to follow it in its legal manifest. Those not involved in [...]
The Vast Ocean of Thoughts
All has been thought, but travel boldly in pursuit of that novel idea. The tragic comedy by which all great men live: boarding majestic ships of purpose with prior knowledge of the impending wreck. For there is no host country to original thought, but instead a sinking into the vast ocean of thoughts. And still [...]
The Human Nature of God
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion. — Abraham Lincoln Faith is the conclusion we draw from the understanding that man is not something that merely is, but is instead something constantly becoming. To become requires faith, because why would we try to do more [...]
Gone the Prodigal Son: Marx, the Prodigal Son/the Bastard (5 of 5)
Marx’s fuzziness allows him to stand directly on the line between ruthless and revolutionary, but he makes sure to leave enough open to interpretation that you can’t tell whether he would have been expressly against the Gulag or understood it as a necessary transient evil in the course of industrializing a nation that jumped the [...]
Gone the Prodigal Son: Marx and Rousseau, the Better Brother (4 of 5)
Rousseau, the Better Brother If there is any (likeable) philosopher who might give Marx some love, it’s Rousseau. Where Rousseau believes we are determined by our culture, Marx says it is our class. The General Will, which Rousseau claims is for the “good of all”, may as well be for the good of the Party [...]
Gone the Prodigal Son: Marx and St. Augustine, the Spoiling Mother (3 of 5)
St. Augustine, the Spoiling Mother St. Augustine helped forge the primary Christian model as one of foregoing earthly pursuits in better interest of God. I believe his conception had a peculiar impact on the beginnings of Communism and public sentiment during the Bolshevik revolution. According to Pontuso, the Orthodox Church before the revolution “had given [...]
Gone the Prodigal Son: Marx and Plato, the Father at Odds (2 of 5)
Plato, the Father at Odds Plato created the prototype for all political philosophy and suggested states with his Republic. For Marx to have even set out to write his considerations of political economy owed much to Plato’s groundbreaking, and that they both wrote works on ideal governments is at least one thing they share completely [...]
Gone the Prodigal Son: Analyzing Marx through Plato, Augustine and Rousseau (1 of 5)
Some families are united through history by their influences and distortions on one another, and some men are born bastards apart from the prestige of their progenitorial design. If Karl Marx is the youngest child in a family of philosophers, then he rebels against father Plato; finds solace in the comfort of mother St. Augustine; [...]
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