Rational Authority

Santayana, George; McCormick, John

doi:10.4324/9780203792940-77

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“…And henceforth 'the masses dictate to government its behaviour. ' 17 In Germany bonfi res of books burnt, on to which were cast the books of great Germans in whom there fl owed but a drop of Jewish blood or whom had been noted as being of a liberal bent and mentality. In general anti-Semitism was a blow to the most spiritually developed part of humanity, the former world of the Bible and Christ.…”

Section: By Vladimir Kantormentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As the Jewish writer Maurice Samuel shrewdly noted, it was not because the Jews had killed Christ that the Nazi anti-Semitic fury was to persecute Jews on every road in Europe but because it was they, the Jews, who had given Christ to the world. 18 There occurred what academically is referred to as the Holocaust. Millions were murdered.…”

Section: By Vladimir Kantormentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The representatives of sensual culture recognize as really existing everything they experience with the help of the senses; what really exists is variable and is subject to constant transformations: however, goals and needs are limited to the visible world. 17 Sorokin, in describing the mechanism of the revolution, often used a rather peculiar methodology, by means of which he tried to show an analogy between cultural (social) transformations and natural phenomena. Biological reductionism appeared in the use of terms such as refl ex (reaction) or instinct.…”

Section: Disobedience Reflex In Sensual Culturementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Sorokin emphasized that the described phenomenon (called by the researcher the fading of the refl ex of obedience) was each time intensifi ed shortly before the outbreak of a revolution: 'As a rule the extinction of the refl exes of subordination begins prior to revolution. ' 18 However, already in the course of the revolutionary confl agration, the disappearance of obedience is progressing at a staggering pace -then the edifi ce of traditional order and hierarchy, erected over the centuries, may be scattered in just a few days. This was shown by events in Russia, when authority suddenly lost its signifi cance: 'The Czar is overthrown.…”

Section: Disobedience Reflex In Sensual Culturementioning

confidence: 99%

“…individualizes it in a specifi c way, by the same token self-individualizing systemically and in a hierarchically descending order down to concrete individuals, representing 'quoad nos' relatively-last personalities. 17 Thus, it behoves us to acknowledge that the notion of pan-unity stands the philosopher in good stead for designating the static sense of existence, while the dynamic nature of being is alluded to by triadism -the ontic process of coming into existence. Thanks to this arrangement, the whole of manifest existence is underpinned by such a dynamically understood tripartite structure.…”

Section: History and Revolutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Philosophy in the Time of Revolution

Shore

2019

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The Russian Revolution may be seen in three various ways: Firstly, as an event in the history of Russia, which was caused by its inherent properties and social and political attributes, particular circumstances, contradictions and obstacles in its historical growth; secondly, as an incident of Russian history which fi ts into a more general pattern of revolutionary events, but which also may serve as its distinct 'sample,' a lesson, a warning for the rest of the world; the Russian Revolution thus would reveal more general rules, threats and controversies of social development, thereby suggesting to other societies the necessary preventive acts which would allow them to avoid the catastrophe of revolution; thirdly, the Russian Revolution may be seen as a structural element of a wider revolutionary process, an element that may be indispensable and essential; this universal context is not seen (as previously) in terms of an independent, though analogous example of a revolutionary event, but as the decisive environment of the Russian Revolution; in this take, we speak of the socialist, proletarian (and before that, bourgeois) nature of the Russian Revolution, of the way it fulfi lled Marxist theory and its vision of history (though with the necessity for Western, universal adjustment), or a cruelly and irrevocably falsifi ed Marxist utopia. The article is devoted to these three interpretations of the problem.

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Section: By Vladimir Kantormentioning

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Section: Disobedience Reflex In Sensual Culturementioning

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Section: Disobedience Reflex In Sensual Culturementioning

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Section: History and Revolutionmentioning

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