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What is Man? And All That?

July 30, 2018 by loydf

Liberals lie. And I include libertarians among liberals. Perhaps they lie first to themselves, but they lie. All liberals, from Hobbes to Locke to Jefferson to von Mises to Nozick and on to the collectivist enablers or advocates of a `liberal’ and totalitarian order. The biggest part of their lie is the one which claims … [Read more…]

Posted in: Human nature, religion and science, Unity of knowledge Tagged: Christian worldview, communal human being, decay of civilizations, history, human nature, philosophy, politics

Dualism: JFK and the Quite Speakable and Quite Historical

December 7, 2017 by loydf

This essay will seem more of a stretch as a case study in the problems of dualism, but there is a method to my stretchy madness. The general point will be: what we see as evil acts by human beings, individual or communal, are the results of behaviors often quite consistent with the bad part … [Read more…]

Posted in: decay of civilization, Dualism Tagged: Freedom and Structure in Human Life, history, human nature, modern world, Narratives and truth, politics

From the Ideological Frying-pan to the Ideological Fire

March 3, 2017 by loydf

[This essay is a lightly edited chapter from my upcoming book, The Shape of Reality, a book which should be posted on my weblog by the end of March and maybe the middle of March.] From 2006 to the present, I’ve been writing about the need to make peace with empirical reality. This is not … [Read more…]

Posted in: civilization, communal human being, politics Tagged: Christian worldview, civilization, decay of civilizations, history, human nature, modern world, politics

A Very Simplified View of the Woes of Christianity—Now and at Two Earlier Times

January 10, 2017 by loydf

Introduction Recently, I attended my monthly men’s prayer group and made a comment about history books telling of the importance of highly educated men from warlord (sometimes royal) families in converting many of the German peoples to Christianity—some of those evangelists, such as Boniface (“Apostle to the Germans”), were themselves Germanic. The organizer of the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Body of Christ, civilization, communal human being Tagged: Body of Christ, Christian in the universe of Einstein, Christian worldview, history, Narratives and truth, St. Thomas Aquinas, Unity of knowledge

What is This Elite Which is Seemingly Trying to Steal All of Creation?

November 28, 2016 by loydf

There is much talk and many words being spoken or written about elites, those who are destroying what was once good in the West and who have concentrated much wealth in their hands. These are the famous 1% or even 0.1% or still smaller groups of the ultra-wealthy and ultra-powerful. Some serious thinkers in academia … [Read more…]

Posted in: Economics, Freedom and Structure in Human Life, history Tagged: Economics, Freedom and Structure in Human Life, history, human nature, modern world, Narratives and truth

The 1960s Were a Time for Reaping Rotten Fruit, Long Past the Time of Sowing

August 9, 2016 by loydf

In reviewing A war for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars by Andrew Hartman, Seth Bartee writes: In A War for the Soul of America Hartman argues that the late 20th century’s cultural conflicts were born out of the tumultuous 1960s. To most observers this might not seem a particularly provocative … [Read more…]

Posted in: Body of Christ, decay of civilization Tagged: Body of Christ, Christian worldview, decay of civilizations, Freedom and Structure in Human Life, history, metaphysics, Mind, St. Thomas Aquinas, transitions of civilizations

It’s Not Hypocrisy, It’s Brainwashing Deeper than Orwell Foresaw

July 26, 2016 by loydf

Recently, I read The China Mirage: The Hidden History of American Disaster in Asia by James Bradley. In early chapters, Bradley describes the American role as junior member of Great Britain’s Opium Trade in China. The Americans were freeloaders of a sort, relying upon the British Navy and Army to prevent the Chinese government from … [Read more…]

Posted in: Freedom and Structure in Human Life, history, honesty in perception Tagged: communal human being, Freedom and Structure in Human Life, history, Narratives and truth

Human Moral Order: Building Upon General Forms of Order

July 12, 2016 by loydf

Let me start by discussing war, a situation in which leaders of states often try to impose their will by wreaking havoc and unleashing forces of disorder, all the while thinking they can keep matters under control. Anthropologists, working with archaeologists and other pre-historians, now have strong evidence that the average level of violent killing … [Read more…]

Posted in: history, Human nature Tagged: Biological evolution, decay of civilizations, Freedom and Structure in Human Life, history, human nature, modern world, Narratives and truth, Unity of knowledge

Human Thought Needs More Curves, or Thingies Stranger than Curves

June 8, 2016 by loydf

We of the modern West can’t deal with the complexity of human communities nor with the complex world implied by our modern empirical knowledge. We can’t produce proper `global’ understandings of human being, individual and communal, nor of this world with all its realms only partly reconciled and made coherent at even the `purely physical’ … [Read more…]

Posted in: history, Mind, Narratives and truth, Unity of knowledge Tagged: Body of Christ, Christian worldview, Freedom and Structure in Human Life, history, knowledge, Mind, Unity of knowledge

Political Machines Run the United States, It’s Not a Liberal Democracy

February 24, 2016 by loydf

Bertrand de Jouvenel was a French political philosopher active in the middle two-thirds of the 20th century. He was considered to be an expert on the American political system, which at least means he didn’t just naively take American leaders and academicians on their word that the United States is a liberal democracy. The United … [Read more…]

Posted in: honesty in perception, politics Tagged: Freedom and Structure in Human Life, history, Narratives and truth, transitions of civilizations
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