As a blog devoted primarily to culture, I view culture as the moral repository from which all politics and economics are derived. But culture, in itself, cannot be understood without accounting for the historical situation that develops and produces the arts, philosophies, and values that constitute a civilization. This includes
Although the presidential election is now over, with the “vote” in favor of the Republican candidate Donald Trump, the electoral college must still meet to vote on, and certify, that Donald Trump is the President-Elect of the United States. Although many consider it a needless formality, since the electoral college
In a previous posting (see Prelude: Towards the Consecration of Learning), I made reference to a gathering storm that burst on the face of Europe, in 794 A.D. at the Lindisfarne monastery. It was a story of looting and plunder, murder and mayhem, as the signature calling card of the
BACKGROUND As a new Western Europe was approaching the second millennium, the kingdoms that for centuries had been warring among themselves, and with fighting bands of organized (and disorganized) plunderers fighting for “their share,” the nations of Western Europe as we know them today began to emerge. These “old and
In previous postings, I had laid out some essentials of what is meant when people use the term tradition to describe ways of living or ways of being. Depending on particular circumstances, tradition is referenced in such phrases as “traditional ways of doing things”, or “following the traditions of the
Humane Letters are about the study of the human spirit. It is a spirit, that searchingly, persistently, and relentlessly, seeks what is true, good and beautiful in the world, in others, and in the self, in which one is guided by love as a life principle upon which to build
… And what there is to conquer, has already been discovered, once, twice, or several times, by men and women we could never hope to emulate, but there is no need to emulate: there is only the fight to recover, what has been lost. And found and lost and found
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