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Hungary’s Potential Leadership Role in Energy Connectivity for the Europe Union
Hungary’s Potential Leadership Role in Energy Connectivity for the Europe Union
Hungary’s Potential Leadership Role in Energy Connectivity for the Europe Union
Hungary’s Potential Leadership Role in Energy Connectivity for the Europe Union
Robert Prevost Becomes First US Pope, Takes Name Leo XIV

PHILOSOPHY

  • CULTURE & SOCIETY, PHILOSOPHY

Stories We Live By: In the Footsteps of Hungarian Master Narratives

‘In Hungary, unique master narratives have emerged over the centuries that live with us to this day. We can run into them everywhere in the most diverse segments of life: in culture, in education, even in politics. What exactly does…
  • Bence Partos
  • ‎ —‎ 30.04.2025
Léon Bazille Perrault, Mother with Child (1894). Private Collection
  • PHILOSOPHY

Renaud Camus on Replacement

‘We must resist the anthropology that reduces our humanity to a commodity of flesh, an anthropology that hollows out our interiority, an ontology that will not permit that interiority to have any substantial existence. Our task is not to preserve…
  • Nathan Pinkoski
  • ‎ —‎ 21.04.2025
  • CULTURE & SOCIETY, PHILOSOPHY

‘Man does not have an environment, but a world’

‘It is no longer clear where the boundaries between nature and culture, human and non-human, artificial and natural lie. In the face of this great uncertainty, we need to rethink fundamental questions such as what the social order is. It…
  • Zoltán Pető – Kálmán Tóth
  • ‎ —‎ 20.04.2025
Jean Bondol and Nicholas Bataille, The Apocalypse Tapestry – New Jerusalem / City of God (1377–1382). Musée de la Tapisserie, Château d’Angers, Angers, France
  • PHILOSOPHY

Reinhold Niebuhr on Morality and International Relations

‘Applying Christian theology and ethics to international relations is now an acutely important activity. The hopeful realism of Reinhold Niebuhr offers one way of recovering a Christian approach to the crisis that is hurtling towards our civilization at a terrifying…
  • Simon P. Kennedy
  • ‎ —‎ 14.04.2025
Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Brueghel the Elder, The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man (1615). Mauritshuis, The Hague, The Netherlands
  • PHILOSOPHY

A Prudent Response to a Continent Going Mad

‘Orbán and the Fidesz leadership are seeking lasting change to Hungarian politics and culture. They recognize that pro-life and pro-family issues are not just legal disputes; they are culture-wide struggles, and they must be addressed as such. Hungarian conservatives are…
  • Michael N. Jacobs
  • ‎ —‎ 07.04.2025
  • PHILOSOPHY

Lajos Prohászka as a Crisis Philosopher — Part III

‘According to Prohászka, in modernity the tradition of earlier, non-atheistic ages does not die out completely, so that modernity, despite its distinctness, also draws on expressions of earlier forms of cultural life. If a positive turn is to be made,…
  • Zoltán Pető
  • ‎ —‎ 29.03.2025
  • PHILOSOPHY

Lajos Prohászka as a Crisis Philosopher — Part II

‘Prohászka have perceived that the blaring confidence of progressivist thought reflected only its inner emptiness, its blindness, its superficiality, its logical and philosophical inconsistency. What follows from these “new principles” is, above all, a tragedy of human existence, more serious…
  • Zoltán Pető
  • ‎ —‎ 26.03.2025
  • PHILOSOPHY

Lajos Prohászka as a Crisis Philosopher — Part I

‘As Márton Molnár puts it, “Prohászka’s work covers three major—closely related—themes: educational science and the history of education…the theoretical issues of the philosophy of culture; and the problems of the modern cultural crisis.” In this paper, we focus on this…
  • Zoltán Pető
  • ‎ —‎ 21.03.2025
Caravaggio, Sacrifice of Isaac, oil on canvas, 104x135 cm, ca. 1603. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy
  • OPINION, PHILOSOPHY

On Leo Strauss’s ‘Progress or Return?’

‘Strauss points away from the modern project of progressive enlightenment and toward an individual ascent out of modernity. Neither of the two premodern ways of life, biblical or philosophic, partakes of the modern hope in social progress, nor in the…
  • Timothy W. Burns
  • ‎ —‎ 12.03.2025
  • CULTURE & SOCIETY, PHILOSOPHY

Is Culture Conservative? — Part II

‘Without culture, Eliot argues, there is no point at all in being human, and it is culture that justifies the content of our existence on Earth for the generations that follow us. “Culture may even be described simply as that…
  • Zoltán Pető
  • ‎ —‎ 24.02.2025
  • OPINION, PHILOSOPHY

What Two Kingdoms Doctrine Can Teach Us about Home: Joining Audrey Unverferth and Rod Dreher’s Conversation

‘Whether through Scripture, the teachings of the Church, or life experience, Christians learn that no relationship or physical place makes them truly at home. For Christians, it has always been challenging to find the right balance between our hope in…
  • Michael N. Jacobs
  • ‎ —‎ 23.02.2025
  • PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS

America First and the End of the ‘End of History’

‘According to the Chinese zodiac, 2025 is the year of the snake, which symbolizes change and transformation. It thus may not be a coincidence that Donald Trump, who campaigned on a promise to bring about drastic changes in Washington, commenced…
  • Matthew Pheneger
  • ‎ —‎ 22.02.2025
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PHILOSOPHY

Stories We Live By: In the Footsteps of Hungarian Master Narratives
CULTURE & SOCIETY PHILOSOPHY

Stories We Live By: In the Footsteps of Hungarian Master Narratives

‘In Hungary, unique master narratives have emerged over the centuries that live with us to this day. We can run into them everywhere in the most diverse segments of life: in culture, in education, even in politics. What exactly does the term master narrative mean and why is it so crucial to our lives and identities? What are the defining Hungarian master narratives?’

Bence Partos
30.04.2025
Renaud Camus on Replacement
PHILOSOPHY

Renaud Camus on Replacement

‘We must resist the anthropology that reduces our humanity to a commodity of flesh, an anthropology that hollows out our interiority, an ontology that will not permit that interiority to have any substantial existence. Our task is not to preserve or defend the West. If Camus is right, we are way past that point. Our task is to decolonize the West.’

Nathan Pinkoski
21.04.2025
‘Man does not have an environment, but a world’
CULTURE & SOCIETY PHILOSOPHY

‘Man does not have an environment, but a world’

‘It is no longer clear where the boundaries between nature and culture, human and non-human, artificial and natural lie. In the face of this great uncertainty, we need to rethink fundamental questions such as what the social order is. It is no exaggeration to say that we need to recreate our worlds on a planet where the very foundations of life are being called into question.’

Zoltán Pető – Kálmán Tóth
20.04.2025
Reinhold Niebuhr on Morality and International Relations
PHILOSOPHY

Reinhold Niebuhr on Morality and International Relations

‘Applying Christian theology and ethics to international relations is now an acutely important activity. The hopeful realism of Reinhold Niebuhr offers one way of recovering a Christian approach to the crisis that is hurtling towards our civilization at a terrifying speed. Niebuhr’s anthropological pessimism provides a foundation for his notion that nations can, and should, work towards a fragile justice.’

Simon P. Kennedy
14.04.2025
A Prudent Response to a Continent Going Mad
PHILOSOPHY

A Prudent Response to a Continent Going Mad

‘Orbán and the Fidesz leadership are seeking lasting change to Hungarian politics and culture. They recognize that pro-life and pro-family issues are not just legal disputes; they are culture-wide struggles, and they must be addressed as such. Hungarian conservatives are not surrendering on these issues, and they are not acting recklessly…the Orbán government’s family policies are prudent.’

Michael N. Jacobs
07.04.2025
Lajos Prohászka as a Crisis Philosopher — Part III
PHILOSOPHY

Lajos Prohászka as a Crisis Philosopher — Part III

‘According to Prohászka, in modernity the tradition of earlier, non-atheistic ages does not die out completely, so that modernity, despite its distinctness, also draws on expressions of earlier forms of cultural life. If a positive turn is to be made, this must be grasped first and foremost.’

Zoltán Pető
29.03.2025
Lajos Prohászka as a Crisis Philosopher — Part II
PHILOSOPHY

Lajos Prohászka as a Crisis Philosopher — Part II

‘Prohászka have perceived that the blaring confidence of progressivist thought reflected only its inner emptiness, its blindness, its superficiality, its logical and philosophical inconsistency. What follows from these “new principles” is, above all, a tragedy of human existence, more serious than ever before. It is the denial of the immortality (or the possibility of immortality) of the soul.’

Zoltán Pető
26.03.2025
Lajos Prohászka as a Crisis Philosopher — Part I
PHILOSOPHY

Lajos Prohászka as a Crisis Philosopher — Part I

‘As Márton Molnár puts it, “Prohászka’s work covers three major—closely related—themes: educational science and the history of education…the theoretical issues of the philosophy of culture; and the problems of the modern cultural crisis.” In this paper, we focus on this last area: the modern cultural crisis.’

Zoltán Pető
21.03.2025
On Leo Strauss’s ‘Progress or Return?’
OPINION PHILOSOPHY

On Leo Strauss’s ‘Progress or Return?’

‘Strauss points away from the modern project of progressive enlightenment and toward an individual ascent out of modernity. Neither of the two premodern ways of life, biblical or philosophic, partakes of the modern hope in social progress, nor in the late modern historicism that would confine all thought to its time and place and obscure eternity. The fruitful antagonism of the two pre-modern ways of life stands in sharp contrast to the failed modern synthesis.’

Timothy W. Burns
12.03.2025
Is Culture Conservative? — Part II
CULTURE & SOCIETY PHILOSOPHY

Is Culture Conservative? — Part II

‘Without culture, Eliot argues, there is no point at all in being human, and it is culture that justifies the content of our existence on Earth for the generations that follow us. “Culture may even be described simply as that which makes life worth living. And it is what justifies other peoples and other generations in saying…that it was worth while for that civilisation to have existed.”’

Zoltán Pető
24.02.2025
What Two Kingdoms Doctrine Can Teach Us about Home: Joining Audrey Unverferth and Rod Dreher’s Conversation
OPINION PHILOSOPHY

What Two Kingdoms Doctrine Can Teach Us about Home: Joining Audrey Unverferth and Rod Dreher’s Conversation

‘Whether through Scripture, the teachings of the Church, or life experience, Christians learn that no relationship or physical place makes them truly at home. For Christians, it has always been challenging to find the right balance between our hope in Jesus Christ and His coming kingdom and our vocations as citizens, spouses…In their articles in The European Conservative, Audrey Unverferth and Rod Dreher highlight important points about family, community and home.’

Michael N. Jacobs
23.02.2025
America First and the End of the ‘End of History’
PHILOSOPHY POLITICS

America First and the End of the ‘End of History’

‘According to the Chinese zodiac, 2025 is the year of the snake, which symbolizes change and transformation. It thus may not be a coincidence that Donald Trump, who campaigned on a promise to bring about drastic changes in Washington, commenced his second term as President of the United States in this epochal year.’

Matthew Pheneger
22.02.2025
Tackling Demographic Crisis Needs Collective Societal Rejuvenation
OPINION PHILOSOPHY

Tackling Demographic Crisis Needs Collective Societal Rejuvenation

‘By rediscovering fundamental needs and values, we will eventually rediscover the need and motivation for having more children. This is a collective project that involves, first of all, ordinary people, philosophers, the church, artists, psychologists, and the government.’

Soma Tölgyesi
21.02.2025
Is Culture Conservative? — Part I
CULTURE & SOCIETY PHILOSOPHY

Is Culture Conservative? — Part I

‘People generally agree that no human society is “without culture”. The concept has been defined in many different ways. The first appearance of the term culture is attributed to Cicero, who used the word in the sense of “cultivation of the soul”…only at the beginning of the 19th century did it acquire the meaning that can be described as “learning and taste, the intellectual side of civilization”.’

Zoltán Pető
20.02.2025
The Relationship Between Deconstructionist Postmodern Society and the Decline of Traditional Western Values: The Problem of ‘Post-Truth’
OPINION PHILOSOPHY

The Relationship Between Deconstructionist Postmodern Society and the Decline of Traditional Western Values: The Problem of ‘Post-Truth’

‘Here the problem of postmodern thinking returns. If there is no truth, since everything is relative and free (but if there is an absolute truth, Derrida calls it totalitarianism), then in the marketplace of ideas, truth—since it does not exist—cannot stand out. If there is no truth, thus no lie, and no set of values, then anything can be disseminated in the public discourse of democratic countries, because there is freedom of speech.’

József Krausz
18.02.2025
The Concept of a ‘Liberal Education’ Has a 2,500-Year-Old Past, But Does It Have a Future?
CULTURE & SOCIETY PHILOSOPHY

The Concept of a ‘Liberal Education’ Has a 2,500-Year-Old Past, But Does It Have a Future?

‘Politically, however, it is not impossible for a state to decide that it would be better, both for children and for the country, to give schools freedom to develop educational approaches that follow liberal education principles, whether within the state system or outside it, especially if evidence can be gathered to show the beneficial effects it is having.’

Nicholas Tate
17.02.2025
Modern Western Culture as the Catalyst of the Age of Depression
OPINION PHILOSOPHY

Modern Western Culture as the Catalyst of the Age of Depression

‘Whereas in pre-modern Western culture pride and self-respect were derived from involvement in family, community, work and religion, individuals are nowadays left with nothing but their individualism and inner experiences…When this is insufficient, many people attempt to find their salvation…in materialism and consumption, which have become the primary culturally accepted forms of meaning.’

Daniel de Liever
09.02.2025
The Future of Christianity in Politics
PHILOSOPHY

The Future of Christianity in Politics

‘Christianity from its beginnings has presented something new with regard to political life: a certain indifference, if I may put it that way, to the political regime. That is, it enjoins rendering unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s, and hence obeying one’s rulers so long as they do not demand sin, especially idolatry. These injunctions are founded on the faith that the City of God rather than the City of Man is man’s ultimate destiny.’

Timothy W. Burns
29.01.2025
Twelve Pillars of Conservative Policymaking
CULTURE & SOCIETY PHILOSOPHY

Twelve Pillars of Conservative Policymaking

‘Despite the different—and certainly debatable—approaches and priorities in specific policy areas, the fundamental objectives of conservative parties largely align. Public discourse and media representation in the West sometimes portray the self-determined policymaking of conservative governments in a polarized manner, focusing more on potentially divisive issues than on constructive dialogue.’

Bence Bauer
28.01.2025
‘Is there a measure on earth?’
PHILOSOPHY

‘Is there a measure on earth?’

‘It is the metaphysical distinction between act and potency that brings depth to being, since it reveals to us that being is not just a fact that is or is not in a shallow binary fashion, but is something that hides in itself a treasure, potency namely, that can be increasingly brought to light through a process of actualization.’

Ivo Kerže
26.01.2025
The Blind Eye Principle: When the Law Tolerates the Illegal — And the Places That Law Can’t Reach
OPINION PHILOSOPHY

The Blind Eye Principle: When the Law Tolerates the Illegal — And the Places That Law Can’t Reach

‘As the assisted dying question turns once again into a contestation of intolerable pains and grotesque moral outrages, we should take a moment to think of a bigger picture. To recall that it is a man-made instrument. It is not designed to bring us harmony, closure, peace on earth, or salvation.’

Gavin Haynes
21.01.2025
Artificial or Natural? A Conservative Christmas Conundrum
OPINION PHILOSOPHY

Artificial or Natural? A Conservative Christmas Conundrum

‘As Christmas approaches, even the most steadfast conservative is faced with a profound seasonal dilemma: should one opt for an artificial tree or remain loyal to the natural variety? The question is more than a practical matter—it is imbued with philosophical, aesthetic, and cultural significance.’

Botond Szabó
21.12.2024
The Dilemma of Christian Democracy
OPINION PHILOSOPHY

The Dilemma of Christian Democracy

‘With the Second Vatican Council a new kind of theology—the so called nouvelle théologie —stepped inside the Church and started to play a decisive role in it. Its main authors like Marie-Dominique Chenu and Henri De Lubac emphasized that the Aristotelian concept of nature was somehow alien to Christianity and that a more existential, a more historical approach to man (and to Revelation as well) would be more appropriate.’

Ivo Kerže
19.12.2024
Combining God and State: Ten Principles to Enable Nations to Prosper
OPINION PHILOSOPHY

Combining God and State: Ten Principles to Enable Nations to Prosper

‘A simple example of restraining evil, which works quite well, are the referees who manage athletic contests. They simply enforce the rules so that order is maintained. They do not help either team win, they do not help the injured, they are not partial, and they do not furnish refreshments. Even so, they are critical to the players, the fans, the coaches, the media, and everyone involved.’

Carter LeCraw
15.12.2024
Triumph, Decline — and Renewal?
PHILOSOPHY

Triumph, Decline — and Renewal?

‘Freedom, understood concretely, is a civilizational, not a natural, construct. This essentially conservative argument could provide the very basis for the continuation of a certain political tradition without which we, modern souls, would live in a much more cruel and inhumane world.’

Ábris Béndek
14.12.2024
Elites and How They Should Be Educated
CULTURE & SOCIETY PHILOSOPHY

Elites and How They Should Be Educated

‘Ortega’s image of what members of his ideal elite should be like derives from his wider philosophy. His spells at German universities made him initially a fervent neo-Kantian who, seeing the world through the lens of transcendental idealism, believed in the objective reality of the Platonic triad of truth, goodness, and beauty, and that this should form the basis of one’s life and education…’

Nicholas Tate
30.11.2024
The Third Budapest School
PHILOSOPHY

The Third Budapest School

‘The Third Budapest School strives to debate the one-sided, analytical, progressive, nihilistic aspirations that dominate American intellectual life, and to cultivate initiatives based on classical European philosophy. It does this by stimulating the formulation of important questions: in contrast to the activist Leninist “What is to be done?”, the Third Budapest School holds that the preeminent question is: “What is to be asked?” This means that the most important measure of all intellectual activity is reality. ’

András Lánczi
23.11.2024
Worlds of Law: A Foray into Aquinas
PHILOSOPHY

Worlds of Law: A Foray into Aquinas

‘There is one sense in which Aquinas certainly did not believe in worlds. This is the sense in which certain Greek philosophers held that there is an infinity of worlds…Aquinas asserts what he calls the “unity of the world”. He claims, too, that the very concept of world denotes a “unity of order”.’

David Lloyd Dusenbury
18.11.2024
A Conservative View on Laissez faire Economics
CULTURE & SOCIETY PHILOSOPHY

A Conservative View on Laissez faire Economics

Policies such as pro-family tax cuts, housing programmes, child benefits etc., all resulting in a kind of family income system that aims to reduce the harm inflicted on families by a Ricardian conception of the economy (which, obviously, cannot be completely overthrown, since we cannot go back to the lifestyle of preindustrial societies), should become a vital part of conservative policies, and should be seen as such in the modern conservative movement, as Allan Carlson pointed out in his Third ways.

Ivo Kerže
16.11.2024
The Spiritual History of the Hungarian Nation — Part IV
CULTURE & SOCIETY PHILOSOPHY

The Spiritual History of the Hungarian Nation — Part IV

‘On our part, we doubt that “history of ideas” as a methodologically coherent discipline existed in Hungary between the two world wars…Nevertheless, their work is undoubtedly a prime example of an attempt at the creation of a conservative-oriented social science. The history of ideas is, in fact, a philosophy of history that takes into account factors that transcend matter, and through a specific research methodology is able to grasp and evaluate the processes that take place “behind” the surface of purely material social phenomena.’

Zoltán Pető
14.11.2024
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