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Tag: American Republicanism

  • Our Pre-Stoic Roots in Human Rights Theory in the United States

    Our Pre-Stoic Roots in Human Rights Theory in the United States

    On the sacred philosophical tradition underlying the foundations of Western Civilization influencing republican theory of human rights in the United States from Heraclitus of the Ioanian tradition, even preceding him. Tracing this history demonstrates how the concept of a divine (primordial) element becomes gradually secularized through the Renaissance Humanists, Enlightenment and Neo-Classical Republican traditions. ORIGINS…

  • Slavery and the Limits of Democracy in the Early Republic, Leslie Alexander

    Slavery and the Limits of Democracy in the Early Republic, Leslie Alexander

    Leslie Alexander examines slavery, the persistence of Racism, and how this challenged the American Revolution’s core ideals (July 2021)

  • American Romanità: What we lost when we Abandoned Classical Education | M.N.S. Sellers, Wes Callihan and Rebekah Hagstrom

    American Romanità: What we lost when we Abandoned Classical Education | M.N.S. Sellers, Wes Callihan and Rebekah Hagstrom

    “The study of ancient Greek and Latin long ago vanished from most American classrooms, and with it has gone a special understanding of the values and virtues prized by Western civilization.” — DANIEL WALKER HOWE, CLASSICAL EDUCATION IN AMERICA, THE WILSON QUARTERLY, 2011. 🗡 IN “AMERICAN REPUBLICANISM: ROMAN IDEOLOGY IN THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION,” M.N.S.…

  • The Lost History of Liberalism From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century | Helena Rosenblatt

    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…

  • Blavatsky’s Theosophical Society: Modeled on Republicanism

    Blavatsky’s Theosophical Society: Modeled on Republicanism

    The Theosophical Society was founded in New York and directly modeled on the American ideal underlying the Revolution and Enlightenment according to Helena P. Blavatsky. “Born in the United States, the Society was constituted in the model of its Motherland.” This model is the American reinvigoration of Classical Republicanism, upon which its Constitution and Declaration…

  • James Madison on the ‘Divine Ideal’ in Republicanism

    James Madison on the ‘Divine Ideal’ in Republicanism

    Federalist Papers No. 55 James Madison, lead drafter of the Constitution stated once, that Republicanism admits the existence of qualities in man in a higher degree, and is thus built on a spiritual Ideal of man’s nature. We recognize James Madison as a man who rejected the notion of racial superiority, although he failed to put…