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Book cover for Ideas Have Consequences
The defeat of logical realism in the great medieval debate was the crucial event in the history of Western culture; from this flowed those acts which issue now in modern decadence.
Nathan Duffy
"Logical realism" lost? Positivism and scientism def won, very closely related.
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Ignatius Brianchaninov
“Just think—we must give an account of every idle word!8 How much more serious will be our account for the word of God, preached with vainglory and at the instigation of vainglory!”
Ignatius Brianchaninov, The Arena: Guidelines for Spiritual and Monastic Life

Ryszard Legutko
“Captured by the ideological animus, both socialist and liberal-democratic art abandoned the criterion of beauty - considered anachronistic and of dubious political value - and replaced it with the criterion of correctness.”
Ryszard Legutko, Triumf człowieka pospolitego

Andrew Louth
“The purpose of theology is to safeguard against misunderstandings that frustrate a Christian life of prayer.”
Andrew Louth, Maximus the Confessor

Ignatius Brianchaninov
“We show right judgment and evince salutary intelligence when, in reading about the rules and experiences of the ancient Fathers and of their obedience—equally amazing both in the directors and in those who were being directed—we see at the present time a general decline of Christianity and recognize that we are unfit to inherit the legacy of the Fathers in its fullness and in all its abundance. And it is a great mystery of God, a great blessing for us, that it is left to us to feed on the crumbs that fall from the spiritual table of the Fathers.”
Ignatius Brianchaninov, The Arena: Guidelines for Spiritual and Monastic Life

Ryszard Legutko
“…egalitarianism and despotism do not exclude each other, but usually go hand in hand. To a certain degree, equality invites despotism, because in order to make all members of a society equal, and then to maintain this equality for a long period of time, it is necessary to equip the controlling institutions with exceptional power so they can stamp out any potential threat to equality in every sector of the society and any aspect of human life: to paraphrase a well-known sentence by one of Dostoyevsky’s characters, ‘We start with absolute equality and we end up with absolute despotism.’ Some call it a paradox of equality: the more equality one wants to introduce, the more power one must have; the more power one has, the more one violates the principle of equality; the more one violates the principle of equality, the more one is in a position to make the world egalitarian.”
Ryszard Legutko, Triumf człowieka pospolitego

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