Intellectuals and Democracy: The Case Against Radical Ideology
I Introduction: Revel and Popper on a “Way of Being for Man in the World” The first chapter of Jean-François Revel’s incisive 1983 book How…
Logic
The Reflexive Problem in Analytic Philosophy: Illogical Logicians
On some topics, most analytic philosophers embrace assertions that involve gross violations of logic and common sense. For instance, determinism is either accepted as true,…
René Guénon and Eric Voegelin on the Degeneration of Right Order [Part II]
I Guénon, Voegelin, and the Modern Crisis. The concupiscent subject’s response to the Siren Song of the ecumene, to conquer and possess it, qualifies as…
Essays on the Frankfurt School, Part III: Carl Jung
As to the previous essay on Existentialism, it could be surmised that man’s obligation to construct meaning in his own life is limited only to…