“Medietas, this living-in-the-proper-middle, is not to be confused with mediocritas, with a lukewarm mediocrity that remains simply beneath the demands placed upon man.”
For Schmitt enemies and potential enemies are all that really exist. We must assert the very opposite, that friends and partial friends are all that exist.
Children told that they will go far do in fact go far. But by remaining, sticking it out, and living here rather than there, one becomes much more powerful; one develops greater capacities for action; one can do more.
Of all the various inventions of modernity, this one stands out as its most impressive: It has ordered man to despise the necessities of life as preventing him from Really Living
Politics is all about virtue because virtue is all about preparing for Heaven. Read on to see how politics is a theological project (and how the Liberals get it wrong).
Guest blogger Michael Higgins warns against taking one more step away from a world of intrinsic meaning and goodness, and one more step into a world that’s empty until we fill it up.
Metaphysical judgments operate tacitly within political and scientific discourse: not as a “system” from which political conclusions are explicitly deduced but as something logically entailed in the basic elements of the discourse itself, and often unarticulated.
