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Divine Law as the Basis for Human Justice by Jacob Jordaens (1665)

A Treatise on Law by St Thomas Aquinas

The notion of law reached new heights in the thirteenth century with Aquinas. Building upon the jurisprudence of the father of canon law, Gratian, who synthesized and harmonized the works of Roman jurists and the theological traditions, the Angelic Doctor…
Gerard ter Borch, The Ratification of the Treaty of Münster (1648). Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The Concept of Nation According to Scruton and the Central European Perspective

In Scruton’s philosophy…the social practice of legislation and jurisdiction could not be realized outside the national framework, because—regardless to their origins—the interpretation and the enforcement of the set of legal rules and moral duties, even human rights, are bound to…
The Birthday of Plato Celebrated in the Villa di Careggi by Lorenzo the Magnificent by Luigi Mussini (1862)

The Intellectual and the Conservative

‘Before the corrosive spirit of purely rational analysis without synthesis became widespread, societies were conservative because they perceived the non-variable essence behind phenomena not only through their most eminent intellectuals but also collectively. The ‘‘men of the spirit’’ in each…
Edward Munch: Melancholy (1894-96)

How Modernity Has Diverted Us from Meaning — A Mental Health Crisis

‘Instead of alienating modern man and calling him weak, conservatives should put forward mankind’s greatest treasure: a transcendental focus towards meaning. Only then can this time of polarisation and erosion of mental resilience, social cohesion and institutions be turned into…
Resurrection of Jean-Jacques Rousseau by Christian Gottlieb Geissler (1794)

Political Religion and Democracy

Paradoxically, it seems that democracy can only sustain itself and protect itself from collapse, (tyranny and chaos) precisely by what is not democratic in it. It seems that it is always easier to justify democracy with a quasi-mystical hypothesis than…

The Curious Case of China’s Conservative Streak

One simply cannot put something as complexly different as the Chinese intellectual field onto either the American left–right axis or the West-European ideological taxonomy. Ultimately, the Chinese field is a different world, albeit one that bears affinities with, and shows…

Nanos Gigantum Humeris Insidentes

Nanos gigantum humeris insidentes, or dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants, is a phrase first used by the twelfth-century French philosopher Bernard de Chartres. It has been chosen as the motto of the Barna Horváth Hungary Law and Liberty…
The south view from the Town Hall Tower of Prague in 1983.

In a World of False Idols Scruton’s Fiction Holds the Truth

While the supposed freedom of a materialistic culture will tend to undermine any sense of the sacred, we can be aware of the false idols and choose to tend to our souls. Scruton, indeed, left us a final work on…

Can a War Ever Be Justified?

The inherent dilemma regarding the rules of engagement in a just war is that they tend to become either vague or restrictive when military operations fail to achieve victory or a ceasefire leading to peace….
Cover of László Ottlik’s 1922 book titled The Social Theory of Marxism.

László Ottlik and the Traditions of Hungarian Political Thought

Political philosophy that is clearly separated from legal philosophy could not really take root in Hungary either in the Renaissance or in the 18th–19th centuries. Outstanding experiments such as certain writings of Count István Széchenyi or Aurél Dessewffy, the ‘Ruling…

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