Tag: Phillip Rieff
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The Superstition of Reason
The only way out this impasse is not to partake of the fighting in the rubble and ruin of the Western mental landscape, which is at this point dominated by the bastards of Reason in various titanic forms.
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Le Bateleur, or Thus Endeth the Lesson
I will assume, for this, a basic familiarity with the text, as well as perhaps some of the items and discussions on the mailing list. Rather, we will look at several prisms or aphorisms or anecdotes from this chapter, to help elucidate in precise detail what quarry Tomberg is hunting. First of all, like his…
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Western Social Order – Part 2
A recent comment by John of Salisbury made me think: “Not only were these scholars unable to drive out the bad scholars, but in combating insanity, they temporarily became insane…” I thought about this question in relation to other questions or comments relating to the “inner struggle” of the man of Tradition in today’s…
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Western Social Order
Cologero points out that quibbling over minor points of philosophy & actualizing states of being are not equivalent for the noble character. That is, philosophical debate is not for the gentleman, beyond a certain point. Surely the West (as such) was built upon such a a fundamental impulse, as the aristocracy of the Franks and…