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Do you know the “Kraemer Doctrine” of “provocative weakness”? U.S. military weakness will provoke enemies to be aggressive because they do not have to fear U.S. retaliation if they misbehave, while our friends (and “neutrals” too) are unable to believe in our ability to protect them. It is a fact that weakness—even apparent weakness—“provokes” hostileვრცლად "Kraemer Doctrine of Provocative Weakness By Fritz Kraemer"
17.2.2025 15:02Kraemer Doctrine of Provocative Weakness By Fritz KraemerMessage for the Celebration of the Day of Peace Listen to me again, you who have arrived at the threshold of the new year 1974. Listen to me again: I am before you making a humble entreaty, a strong entreaty. Naturally, as you will have guessed, I wish to speak to you once more aboutვრცლად "Peace Depends on You Too by Pope Paul VI"
16.2.2025 07:35Peace Depends on You Too by Pope Paul VIThe reason, however, why the philosopher may be likened to the poet is this: both are concerned with the marvelous. THOMAS AQUINAS I. By philosophizing we step beyond the world of work—“Common need” and “common good”—The “world of total work” rests on the identification of “common need” and “common good”—The situation of philosophy in the “world ofვრცლად "Philosophical Act by Josef Pieper"
8.2.2025 13:56Philosophical Act by Josef PieperAuthor’s Preface to the English Edition Culture depends for its very existence on leisure, and leisure, in its turn, is not possible unless it has a durable and consequently living link with the cultus, with divine worship. The word “cult” in English is used exclusively, or almost exclusively, in a derivative sense. But here it is used,ვრცლად "Leisure – Basis of Culture by Josef Pieper"
8.2.2025 11:51Leisure – Basis of Culture by Josef Pieper[…] the 1980s, Tom Wolfe proposed that the 21st century be the era of “The Great Relearning.” Instead, because the left knows it can’t compete with the great men of the past, the great […]
31.12.2024 17:31კომენტარი ჩანაწერზე Great Relearning – 20th Century Is Over by Tom Wolfe (Instapundit » Blog Archive » I’M PRETTY SURE THE MEN IN BLACK MEMORY ERASER ...[…] Exmas and Christmas. This is brilliant from CS Lewis, on some of the follies of the season. […]
24.12.2024 20:09კომენტარი ჩანაწერზე Xmas and Christmas: A Lost Chapter from Herodotus by C. S. Lewis (Month of Sundries: December 2024 – Holding on to Hope)The idea of the “open society” was introduced by the French philosopher Henri Bergson in the 1930s, with a view to contrasting two ways of creating social cohesion: the magical and the rational. Magical thinking involves the submission to mystical forces that must be appeased and obeyed, and societies founded on magic are closed toვრცლად "Open Society from Conservative Perspective by Roger Scruton"
18.12.2024 14:30Open Society from Conservative Perspective by Roger ScrutonFrom The Idea of a University A university may be considered with reference either to its Students or to its Studies; and the principle, that all Knowledge is a whole and the separate Sciences parts of one, which I have hitherto been using in behalf of its studies, is equally important when we direct our attention toვრცლად "Knowledge Its Own End by John Henry Newman"
17.12.2024 16:24Knowledge Its Own End by John Henry Newman1. Preliminary Considerations: The Crisis of the SacramentalIdea in Modern Consciousness In the present intellectual situation, whoever attempts to reflect on the sacramental basis of Christian existence will immediately run into a remarkable paradox of contemporary intellectual life: on the one hand, our age has been called the century of the Church; it could justვრცლად "Sacramental Foundation of Christian Existence by Joseph Ratzinger"
13.12.2024 05:21Sacramental Foundation of Christian Existence by Joseph RatzingerIntroduction Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, to his brother Peter, the servant of God. If we had to honour with rewards of money those who excel in virtue, the whole world of money, as Solomon says, would seem but small to be made equal to your virtue in the balance. Since, however, the debt of gratitudeვრცლად "On the Making of Man by Gregory of Nyssa"
13.12.2024 04:13On the Making of Man by Gregory of Nyssa[…] [5] The full text of that constitution is available in English here: https://matiane.wordpress.com/2012/09/04/constitution-of-georgia-1921/ […]
3.12.2024 19:30კომენტარი ჩანაწერზე Constitution Of Georgia, 1921 (100 Years On, What’s Left Of Georgian Social Democracy? - Georgian Trade Unions Confederation)To the memory of Jan Patocka I A specter is haunting Eastern Europe: the specter of what in the West is called “dissent” This specter has not appeared out of thin air. It is a natural and inevitable consequence of the present historical phase of the system it is haunting. It was born at aვრცლად "Power of Powerless by Václav Havel"
25.11.2024 02:20Power of Powerless by Václav HavelIn one of the founding texts of sociology, The Rules of Sociological Method (1895), Emile Durkheim set it down that “crime is normal.” “It is,” he wrote, “completely impossible for any society entirely free of it to exist.” By defining what is deviant, we are enabled to know what is not, and hence to liveვრცლად "Defining Deviancy Down by Daniel Patrick Moynihan"
21.11.2024 19:48Defining Deviancy Down by Daniel Patrick Moynihan[…] devotional mentions C.S. Lewis’ article The Necessity of Chivalry; we warmly recommend reading through […]
10.11.2024 05:34კომენტარი ჩანაწერზე Necessity of Chivalry by C. S. Lewis (2 Samuel 15-16 - United Community Church)[…] of the Czech Republic (and a noted intellectual in his own right), Vaclav Havel notes in a piece worth reading in its […]
9.8.2024 07:02კომენტარი ჩანაწერზე Need for Transcendence in Postmodern World By Vaclav Havel (Science, Society, And Stability | Freedom Is Good!!!)[…] like the Gothic artists did. In that sense, it is the best of both worlds. As Christopher Dawson wrote: “It was as though the Gothic spirit was expressing itself anew in classical forms.” If the […]
23.6.2024 23:00კომენტარი ჩანაწერზე European Revolution by Christopher Dawson (A Short Survey of the Catholic Art Tradition – Nicholas B. Leo)[…] favourite and lucrative worldview. In conclusion, they are classical bulverists so ingeniously characterised by C.S. Lewis […]
20.6.2024 10:55კომენტარი ჩანაწერზე ‘Bulverism’ by C. S. Lewis (The Misinformation Dis(mis)course Revisited : The Losing Battle of The Academic Expertocracy — Guest P...[…] as Orwell convincingly argues in his 1942 essay, “Pacifism and the War,” pacifists are lying (including deceiving themselves) if they take the moral stance of being […]
28.5.2024 16:33კომენტარი ჩანაწერზე Pacifism and the War by George Orwell (Pacifism Revisited – Emanuel Goldstein)[…] first seen in print during the 18th century, when Edmund Burke, the Anglo-Irish political writer, wrote concerning the role of government in providing necessities to its people, “having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the […]
1.2.2024 22:04კომენტარი ჩანაწერზე Thoughts and Details on Scarcity by Edmund Burke (Eddie Bernice Johnson’s Death Reminds America: Big Business Has a Habit of Bitin...[…] haalde een van Benedictus’ “grote papers” aan – Christian Orientation in Pluralist Democracy (vert.: christelijke oriëntatie in een pluralistische democratie) – waarbij hij zei dat de […]
5.1.2024 15:04კომენტარი ჩანაწერზე Christian Orientation in Pluralistic Democracy? by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (Benedictus XVI: vrienden en geleerden halen herinner...