Articles in English
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The death of a culture begins when its normative institutions fail to communicate ideals in ways that remain inwardly compelling… At the breaking point, a culture can no longer maintain itself as an established span of moral demands. Its jurisdiction contracts; it demands less, permits more. Bread and circuses become confused with right and duty. Spectacle…
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Atheism is untenable unless it is the case that there is no plausible notion of God worthy of the name (J. Angelo Corlett, 88). I’ve found J. Angelo Corlett’s book The Errors of Atheism (Continuum, 2010) as an agnostic’s statement on the current state of the debate about God’s existence, being a pertinent critique of…
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No one who has a taste for literature has the right to be happy because the only men entitled to happiness are those who are useful (industrialist Richard Teller Crane) The actual economical crisis was indirectly caused by the institutions that produce and sustain the educated elite of our times. The greed of the bankers…
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We had the experience, but missed the meaning. (T. S. Eliot) The old production-oriented culture demanded what the historian Warren Susman termed character. The new consumption-oriented culture demands what he called personality. The shift in values is a shift from a fixed morality to the artifice of presentation. The old cultural values of thrift and…
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