Professor Thomas F. Bertonneau, Requiescat in Pace
It is with great sadness that we report the passing of our friend and occasional contributor to SydneyTrads, Professor Thomas F. Bertonneau. News of this…
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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…
Past and Future Gulags
Vladimir Solovyov’s insightful The Crisis of Western Philosophy can enlighten us today as to the importance of re-telling history to educate subsequent generations. With its…
A Manifesto of Neo-Romanticism
He is thinking: “See how God writes straigh on crooked lines.”1 What realistic form can a manifesto of neo-romanticism take in a positivistic age? How…
Scientism, Existential Reflection and God
I Scientism, Science and Technology Scientism is not science. Instead, scientism is an ideology that reduces man’s hope and aspirations to the scientific method. Scientism…
Aesthetic Knowledge
Aesthetic subjectivism, or “relativism,” is the view that beauty is solely in the eye of the beholder. The term “relativism” is sometimes used to indicate…
2017 Symposium – Richard Cocks
Philosophy and The Crisis of the Modern World To find a way out of the current confusions and rifts in modern Western societies, and for…
2017 Symposium – Brett Stevens
Y3K Western identity never knew itself. Men of the West understood themselves as tribes and later nations, but never saw a need to unify…
René Guénon and Eric Voegelin on the Degeneration of Right Order [Part I]
I Introduction The Diadochic Kingdoms No area of Western history is quite as recondite as that of the Diadochic empires, the successor-kingdoms that sprang up…
2016 Symposium – Kristor J. Lawson
The Social Contract with the Logos Society as manifest in all its organs and instruments – including the individual – is mediated by a web…