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The Western Roots of China and the Chinese Roots of the West — Part II

‘China is looking for a new moral synthesis of its Confucian and Western political culture that could stabilize Chinese society and take its “positive union” to new heights. This could be one of the most constructive dialogues between China and…
  • David Lloyd Dusenbury–Philip Pilkington
  • ‎ —‎ 20.06.2025
  • PHILOSOPHY

The Western Roots of China and the Chinese Roots of the West — Part I

‘Can Western nations hope to resurrect Western hegemony while remaining so dysfunctional domestically? Deeper still: are some of these domestic dysfunctions a direct result of their role in maintaining a liberal empire in its late stages? Viewed this way, the…
  • David Lloyd Dusenbury–Philip Pilkington
  • ‎ —‎ 19.06.2025
  • OPINION, PHILOSOPHY

Why Conservatives Should Rethink Their Idealization of the Nation State

‘As conservatives, we understand that the world is a broken and imperfect historical place. We cannot go back in time, but we can focus on building a future that is more conscious of the dangers posed by the neo-Durkheimian order…
  • Daniel de Liever
  • ‎ —‎ 14.06.2025
  • PHILOSOPHY

Notes on Modern Mentality II — Why Is Atheism Possible?

‘…the idea of a Creator conceived and represented in vulgar theological approaches as a quasi-human person is not only unacceptable today but also explicitly harmful to the contemporary expressions and life-opportunities of religion, fostering further denial and turning away in…
  • Zoltán Pető
  • ‎ —‎ 07.06.2025
  • PHILOSOPHY

Notes on Modern Mentality I — Why Is Atheism Possible?

‘The idea of the survivability of death is a key problem, because in its light the whole of life takes on a completely different meaning: if it is possible, nothing else is more important than this; if it is not…
  • Zoltán Pető
  • ‎ —‎ 04.06.2025
  • PHILOSOPHY

A Philosopher Priest’s Thoughts on Education — The Social Theory of Pál Kecskés

‘…the ideas of Pál Kecskés on education and pedagogy are fundamentally rooted in Christian social theory, which seeks to envision an ideal society from a Christian perspective. His reflections remain relevant today, in a time when individuals…have perhaps never had…
  • András Jancsó
  • ‎ —‎ 10.05.2025
  • 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
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PHILOSOPHY

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
The Spiritual History of the Hungarian Nation — Part III
CULTURE & SOCIETY PHILOSOPHY

The Spiritual History of the Hungarian Nation — Part III

‘Linguistic–ethnic nationalism is the quintessential negative (in Joó’s parlance, “imperialist”) nationalism, a nationalism insensitive to qualitative differences or to more elevated spiritual concepts of the state, such as the unifying “Hungarus consciousness” of the nomadic empire’s supranationalism, which derives from the dynasty’s divinely-derived spiritual unifying power.’

Zoltán Pető
05.11.2024
The Spiritual History of the Hungarian Nation — Part II
CULTURE & SOCIETY PHILOSOPHY

The Spiritual History of the Hungarian Nation — Part II

‘The most important distinguishing feature of the Hungarian national ethos and Hungarian nationalism, according to Joó, is that the Hungarian nation’s leitmotif of Steppe origin survived the foundation of the Christian state, and even survived the Middle Ages, synthesizing it with Christianity. In Western Europe, however, a very different kind of nation-building took place. Charlemagne’s brief attempt at empire-building, i.e. his efforts to renew the Roman Empire on a Christian–Germanic basis, essentially quickly failed.’

Zoltán Pető
28.10.2024
Jordan Peterson’s Fascinating Conversation with Richard Dawkins
CULTURE & SOCIETY PHILOSOPHY

Jordan Peterson’s Fascinating Conversation with Richard Dawkins

Dr Jordan B Peterson has recently had a public discussion with evolutionary biologist Dr Richard Dawkins, one of the most prominent figures of the popular atheist movement of the early 2000s. The two philosophers touched on subjects such as Jesus Christ’s birth of a virgin mother and his resurrection, the philosophical foundation for the modern scientific enterprise, and many more intriguing questions.

Márton Losonczi
28.10.2024
The Spiritual History of the Hungarian Nation — Part I
PHILOSOPHY

The Spiritual History of the Hungarian Nation — Part I

‘As a committed Protestant, Joó emphasized the primacy of “spirit” over matter in almost all his writings, but he failed to take into account that religion and “spirit” do not always overlap, and religiosity itself simply becomes ineffective if so-called religious people view the world on the same premises as their atheistic and materialistic counterparts.’

Zoltán Pető
27.10.2024
Material Consumerism: Our Path Towards an Unhappy Consciousness
OPINION PHILOSOPHY

Material Consumerism: Our Path Towards an Unhappy Consciousness

‘As modern consumer society has made consumption the root of identity, man has become a prisoner of the constant renewal of consumer demands…Contrary to early capitalist societies, people have completely reduced themselves to the self-as-consumer. The short excitement that accompanies consumption is all that modern man has left.’

Daniel de Liever
25.10.2024
Fifty Shades of Conservatism
PHILOSOPHY

Fifty Shades of Conservatism

‘Coming up with an authoritative definition of conservatism is not an end in itself so much as a sort of ritualistic pursuit, which we perform expecting some change from it along the lines of a deeper understanding of our past, our present, and the mysteries of the human species and the world. There are any number of ways in which the history of conservative thought could be written, if only as a story of the attempts at grasping the very notion of conservatism.’

Miklós Pogrányi Lovas
21.10.2024
Thomas Molnar’s Radical Critique of the ‘Liberal Hegemony’
PHILOSOPHY

Thomas Molnar’s Radical Critique of the ‘Liberal Hegemony’

‘There can be no question that Thomas Molnar’s thought was often driven by a confrontation with the intensified secularist, materialist, and anti-religious ideological tendencies following the socio-historical and ideological period of the eighteenth century. He sought the roots of modern political philosophies such as liberalism and Marxism.’

Zoltán Pető
13.10.2024
Leviathan and Its Armour — Part III
PHILOSOPHY

Leviathan and Its Armour — Part III

‘Today, the expansion of the state apparatus…continues, but is approaching its culmination. In this spirit, that is, the announcement of the ‘‘fourth industrial revolution’’ and ‘‘digitalization’’, all of which fit into the logic of rationalization and rationalism, the world is becoming more and more virtual, and technology is becoming more and more totalitarian, a new mechanism of control.’

Zoltán Pető
11.10.2024
Leviathan and Its Armour — Part II
PHILOSOPHY

Leviathan and Its Armour — Part II

‘What can the modern conservative politician do in the face of such a Leviathan, which he did not create? He has two choices: either he retires and no longer wants to be in politics, or he tries to ride this sea serpent, he tries to use the power of the monster to ‘‘take’’ society in a direction that is contrary to the direction of the alleged progress.’

Zoltán Pető
09.10.2024
Leviathan and Its Armour — Part I
PHILOSOPHY

Leviathan and Its Armour — Part I

‘If we accept the existence of transcendence as conservatives, we must also accept that everything that is outside the transcendent is sui generis subject to change. Change— and thus clearly also the fact of decline or progress—is made possible by transcendence as everything else ‘‘in’’ the world. The existence of the ‘‘Eternal’’—this is the particular knowledge that is the most important part of the ‘‘wisdom of the ancestors’’ and it is what the moderns have forgotten.’

Zoltán Pető
07.10.2024
A Synthesis of Traditional Conservatism
OPINION PHILOSOPHY

A Synthesis of Traditional Conservatism

‘I believe that the true ontological essence of conservatism is contained in the definition: conservatism is the making present of actuality. In this way, conservatism is bound both to the particularities of specific belonging cultures and to the wider belonging civilization…Conservatism as a political philosophy arises when the address of the aforementioned actuality is threatened.’

Andrej Lokar
04.10.2024
A Burkean Antidote to Our Utopian Delusions
OPINION PHILOSOPHY

A Burkean Antidote to Our Utopian Delusions

‘To maintain social order, legitimate authority needs to be guarded so that popular sovereignty cannot derail in a popularity contest, which we witness today, for example in the American elections. It means that our leaders need to be honest about the human condition as well as provide a stability in which each person, in line with their talents and destiny, can thrive.‘

Daniel de Liever
22.09.2024
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