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POPSThe Myth of Progress <<<Solitude is inimical to power, shuns power, seeks its own progress. A progress that is an illusion, enhancing the few and fooling the masses, is for the solitary the opposite of progress, for it does not consult nature or quiet the mind in order to begin reconsturcting the self. But the theory of progress is an old device masking power, and concealing what the 20th century creative souls — and those brave 19th century figures like Kierkegaard and Nietzsche — unmasked as lies about human nature. What is the alternative to progress for the grand institutions of today? It is a devolution to simplicity, to individuals and small social units, to natural industry and exchange, to a relationship to nature based on value and not exploitation or power. The alternative to progress is a devolution of artificial wealth, privilege, and legitimacy.
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POPS One Man Men mattered, not impersonal forces. Even in collectivized Sparta this was true. Soldiers and kings competed with each other for notice and praise. We take note of one of these men among a throng of heroes. His name was Leonidas. He was a king of Sparta. He lived, as the Chinese would say, in interesting times. His city-state—ironically once idealized by communists—had dominated and enslaved the Peloponnese for 300 years. Its army of 8,000 hoplites had seldom been defeated. Some 2500 years ago both it and its fellow Greek states faced their greatest challenge. For in far off Persia king Darius I was on the move. Since 547 BC much of Greek civilization in Asia Minor had been under Persian control, and it was a logical extension of this control that Persia desired to expand into the Aegean. This Persian imperialism brought what Herodotus called “the beginning of troubles” for Greece.
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POPShegel det subjektivas och det objektivas enhet
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POPSPillar of Unbelief - Marx Monism: the idea that everything is one and that common sense's distinction between matter and spirit is illusory. Pantheism: the notion that the distinction between Creator and creature, the distinctively Jewish idea, is false. For Hegel, the world is made into an aspect of God (Hegel was a pantheist); for Marx, God is reduced to the world (Marx was an atheist). Historicism: the idea that everything changes, even truth; that there is nothing above history to judge it; and that therefore what is true in one era becomes false in another, or vice versa. Dialectic: the idea that history moves only by conflicts between opposing forces, a "thesis" vs. an "antithesis" evolving a "higher synthesis." Necessitarianism, or fatalism: the idea that the dialectic and its outcome are inevitable and necessary, not free. Statism: the idea that since there is no eternal, trans-historical truth or law, the state is supreme and uncriticizable. Militarism: (read article)
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POPSJerry Z. Muller: Is the Market Moral? Jerry Z. Muller ("The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Western Thought") is Professor of history at the Catholic University of America, Washington, DC. His essay, which is overflowing with dewy-eyed praise of the morality of capitalism, ought to be noticed and needs critique. Summary: Muller discusses the moral effects of capitalism. He enumerates five positive moral effects of the market. The link between individual autonomy and self-support through legally free labor. The moral quality of self-support arises in good part from the fact that it so often extends beyond the individual, to his or her family and descendants. The market leads to a self-interested concern for others, to what one might call non-altruistic reciprocity. Capitalism creates ever wider forms of association. Capitalism creates new and more complex forms of individuality. ↗Deutsch
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POPSWho is Antonio Gramsci? - You Better Learn "His methods became in fact, the "field manual" for the many that followed. If you understand Gramsci, you will understand the "peculiar" and "weird" theories that are in vogue today. And you will understand that they are not the work of "weird crazy people" but rather of calculating and quite intelligent operatives." I IMPLORE all Right-thinking people to educate themselves on the ideas of Materialists. They are more prevalent now than they ever have been. You need to know what is behind the trends in HIgher Education, Political Correctness, Environmentalism, The thousand or so political action, interest groups that tear the fabric of America (ACLU, NEA, Think Progress, Moveon.org) and a thousand others. They are founded in Progressive/Marxist/Materialist views.
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POPSHerbert Marcuse - The seeds of Materialism in American Culture 1964 Marcuse published One-Dimentional Man, a critique of both advanced capitalism and communism. It looks at the loss of potential for revolution and new forms of social control in capitalist society. ______________________________________________________________ Marcuse's popular lectures at the university were harshly critiques of American civilization. His audience included many students who would eventually make their own marks as influential thinkers, such as Angela Davis and Abbie Hoffman. ______________________________________________________________ Marcuse died in July of 1979.
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POPSMaterialism and C.S. Lewis The ideological world can be divided along the lines of Materialism and Naturalism. The current labels of Conservative and Liberal really do not fit at all in this World. Materialists divide the World into groups, categories, classes, race, ethnicity, etc. They reject the idea of logic and truth as conventions of the mind. The family tree of Materialism includes: Malthus, Darwin, Stalin, Sartre, Nietzche, Hegel, Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Communism, Eugenics, Abortion, Socialists, Communists, Environmentalists and NeoConservatives.
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POPSPhilosophy since the Enlightenment Philosophy can sometimes seem like like a subject that has little practical application, but in studying it the way we think is examined, dramatic differences, and similarities can be seen in the way beliefs can be held by people with apparently rational justification. These beliefs and opinions have a direct effect on the way the world is seen. 'Reality' may stay the same, but if the way it is seen changes, is it the same reality ?
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POPSPhilosophy Online Francis Bacon,René Descartes,Feuerbach,Hegel,Kant,Nietzsche,Platon,Schopenhauer,Max Weber etc.
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POPSWHAT IS POSTMODERNISM? Postmodernism is not just a philosophical movement: it is found also, for example, in architecture, the graphic arts, dance, music, literature, and literary theory.1 As a general cultural phenomenon, it has such features as the challenging of convention, the mixing of styles, tolerance of ambiguity, emphasis on diversity, acceptance (indeed celebration) of innovation and change, and stress on the constructedness of reality. Philosophical postmodernism, in turn, does not represent a single point of view. There are progressive postmodernists and conservative ones,2 postmodernists of “resistance” and postmodernists of “reaction,”3 strongly reform-minded postmodernists and others who concentrate on pricking bubbles. There are bleeding hearts and loose cannons. There is constant debate among so-called postmodernists about how a true postmodernist should approach life and inquiry and hence what qualifies as postmodernism.
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