Tag: political philosophy
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Introduction to Black Republicanism: Five Early Figures, Wheatley to Douglass
In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, a small but influential group of Black intellectuals engaged deeply with Greco-Roman classics and the ideals of classical republicanism. This engagement was multifaceted in that they drew on ancient texts to demonstrate Black intellectual capacity in the face of racist denials. This challenged e.g., claims by Thomas…
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The Lost Meaning of Republicanism in Modern America
Americans often appear indifferent to “Republicanism” (meaning the classical republican tradition) because the word has been almost completely hijacked in everyday language by the Republican Party. When most people hear “republicanism” today, they think of the Grand Old Party, Trump, culture-war talking points, or at best vague slogans about “limited government.” The deeper philosophical tradition…
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George Washington on the Sacred Fire of Liberty and the Republic
The doctrine on the sacred fire (i.e., the divine spark) and noumenal fire came from far antiquity — from Africa, from the Jewish Sodalites, from Aryavarta, from the natives of Persia, the seven Greek sages, and the Hellenistic and Roman Stoicism down to American Republicanism. When first chief, George Washington stated in his first Inaugural…
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Letter on my Political Ideas, History and Critiques of Conservatism
THE SECRET DESTINY OF AMERICA The purpose of The American Minervan began as a side project to question and refute by myself, certain unverified claims made in Manly P. Hall’s The Secret Destiny of America and to lay out what was addressed between William Q. Judge, Dolatram and H.P.B. on the question of Freemason and…
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Giuseppe Mazzini’s Cosmopolitan Politics and Influence on Woodrow Wilson
MAZZINI’S “DEMOCRATIC WORLD REPUBLIC”: THE COSMOPOLITANISM OF NATIONS It was Mazzini’s conviction that under the historical circumstances of his time, only the nation-state could allow for genuine democratic participation and the civic education of individuals. To him, the nation was a necessary intermediary step in the progressive association of mankind, the means toward a future…
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The Creation of New Culture
I think of these ideas presented here as what will come to synthesize the combined ideal and mission of THEOSOPHY, Johann Adam Weishaupt’s PERFECTIBILISM and REPUBLICANISM. MINVRA celebrates the path of human struggle to wisdom in life. It encourages you to adopt a balance: a sincere martial attitude towards life to sustain strong spiritual and…
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Four Points about the Revolutionary Character of Republicanism
There are four things to understand about Republicanism:
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Discussion on Ignorance of Republicanism in our Political Degeneration
THE TERM REPUBLICANISM IS NEVER USED BY OUR MODERN POLITICIANS. Rachel Hammersley demonstrates its importance in her work, also taking from ancient republicanism the words of several lawmakers, such as the Spartan — Lycurgus. No politician today embodies the American politics in this form — its arguably highest form. Amy Klobucher for example repeatedly used…
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Where Authority Lies: Republicanism, Liberalism, and Progressive Morality
WHERE AUTHORITY LIES “. . .And they that are wise shall shine as the brightness (zohar) of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.” (Dan. xii, 3) What is called the “new morality” (a term dating to the 1920s) today guided by progressive social movements seems not too…
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The Lost History of Liberalism From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century | Helena Rosenblatt
“I have been reading and thinking about liberalism for so long it would be impossible to list and thank all the scholars whose work has informed and shaped mine.” (HELENA ROSENBLATT, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS) What does it mean to be a liberal, and how has the meaning of the word evolved over decades and even centuries? The…
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Gordon S. Wood on Republicanism and Monarchy in the Eighteenth-Century
“Educated people of varying political persuasions celebrated republicanism for its spirit, its morality, its freedom, its sense of friendship and duty, and its vision of society. Republicanism as a set of values and a form of life was much too pervasive, comprehensive, and involved with being liberal and enlightened to be seen as subversive or…
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Giuseppe Mazzini on the Divine Ideal of Republicanism
GIUSEPPE MAZZINI ON THE REPUBLICAN SPIRIT TIED TO THE COMMON GOOD “The Republic, as I at least understand it, means association, of which liberty is only an element, a necessary antecedent. It means, association, a new philosophy of life, a divine Ideal, that shall move the world, the only means of regeneration vouchsafed to the…
The American Minervan 