Once a certain degree of European development has been reached, the linguistic and cultural communities of peoples, having silently matured throughout the centuries, emerge from the world of passive existence as peoples (passiver Volkheit). They become conscious of themselves as a force with a his...
The film’s warnings about fascism, dictatorship, authoritarianism, Christian nationalism and antisemitism are at the heart of the story, then, as now. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a pastor and author whose “radical” interpretations of Christianity became theological building blocks for generations to ...
plan recognized this fact.Some of the delegates, like Hamilton and Madison, even proposed to give Congress a general legislative authority covering all national matters;but others, frightened by the specter ofnationalism, insisted on specifying each power to be conferred and finally carried the day....
Pope Francis wrote, “Acknowledging the value of the synodal journey that we have made, I now hand over the instructions contained in the Final Document to the entire Church, as a restitution of everything that has matured over these years through listening and discernment, and as an authoritat...
1. the legal and social system that evolved in W Europe in the 8th and 9th centuries, in which vassals were protected and maintained by their lords, usually through the granting of fiefs, and were required to serve under them in war 2. any social system or society, such as medieval ...
2024 Over the years, I have flirted with the idea of economic discussion with many people around me, both in my immediate circle and others. The libertarian utopian (advocating privatization, free trade and sound money) often sparred with the lukewarm liberal realist (generally advocating “what...
European Universalism – and its pivotal trinity of Man, Nature, and Civilization – matured in the long seventeenth century. This was capitalism’s first developmental crisis. These crises mark the transition from one phase of capitalism to another, during which imperial bourgeoisies resolve system...
went elsewhere, especially to Europe and South America. Immigration to the United States before and after this period accounted for approximately one million additional arrivals—a considerable movement in its own right—but the era of mass migration remains central to the Italian immigrant experience....
They are symbols of fierce nationalism and of militarism, of intrigue and war-making which embroiled Europe, generation after generation, crushing its manhood, destroying its homes, and impoverishing its life. They have so identified themselves with the philosophies they conceived, and with the ...
Nature delights the eyes and desires to make wise (Genesis 3:6), but Nationalism is a vicious outgrowth of Romanticism, which intoxicates the mind by emphasizing private experience over collective consciousness, or lawless feelings over the lawful ratio. The idea of "homely house" orheimatwas on...