Philosophy, poetry, @UpsPolitics, ELTE RCH, @CBPhull. An Aristotelian Philosophy of Civility. Culture and Politics (Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Nature, 2026)
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"Civility is the form of socially acceptable behaviour, consisting in essence of a set of constraints slowly developed by social cohabitation. These norms of civility, or practical virtue are valid for all interpersonal communications..."
My book (2026) is beyond 1.000 accesses.
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CIvil economy is a direction of economic thought, which can be traced back to the work of Antonio Genovesi (1713-1769), "the professor granted the chair of Economics, the first of its kind in the world, at the University of Naples in 1753",... the chair of Civil Economics"
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Analytical conservatism - in three steps.
STEP 1.
"...descriptive metaphysics is the kind represented by Aristotle, by the commonsense philosophy of Thomas Reid, and the ordinary language philosophy of J. L. Austin and Strawson himself."
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My essay “The Metaphysical Foundations of Conservatism” appeared in the 2022 anthology Dissident Philosophers, edited by T. Allan Hillman and Tully Borland. I notice that it has been posted at PhilArchive: philarchive.org/archive/EDWT…
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Did the German Jesuits like Gundlach, Pesch and Nell-Breuning participate in this tradition in some way?
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The answer is apparently yes. AI: "While the German Jesuit tradition (Solidarism) and the Italian tradition (Civil Economy) developed in different regions, they ultimately merged into the modern Vatican framework that Stefano Zamagni operates within today." We need to work on it.
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What do you think of the philosophy of economics, usually referred to as civil economy, and its crucial figures, including Stefano Zamagni and Luigino Bruni?
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There are as many histories, as participants and eyewitnesses of history. These are parallel, often overlaping universes.
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What a symbolic gesture!
Histórico: el Papa León XIV y el rey Carlos III intercambian títulos religiosos por primera vez en 500 años
El Papa León XIV ha sido nombrado Confrater Papal de la Capilla de San Jorge, en Windsor, mientras que el rey Carlos III ostenta el título de Confrater Real de la Basílica de San Pablo Extramuros, en Roma.
Este gesto, anunciado un año después de su histórico encuentro en el Vaticano, supone un nuevo paso en el acercamiento entre la Iglesia católica y la Iglesia anglicana, separadas desde el siglo XVI.
«Que todos sean uno» (Jn 17,21).
What a symbolic gesture!
Histórico: el Papa León XIV y el rey Carlos III intercambian títulos religiosos por primera vez en 500 años
El Papa León XIV ha sido nombrado Confrater Papal de la Capilla de San Jorge, en Windsor, mientras que el rey Carlos III ostenta el título de Confrater Real de la Basílica de San Pablo Extramuros, en Roma.
Este gesto, anunciado un año después de su histórico encuentro en el Vaticano, supone un nuevo paso en el acercamiento entre la Iglesia católica y la Iglesia anglicana, separadas desde el siglo XVI.
«Que todos sean uno» (Jn 17,21).
What a company! This conversation of great minds is what we lack today.
The Turk's Head, Soho
In 1764 Joshua Reynolds, the leading portrait painter of his day, founded a dining club with Samuel Johnson, the man behind the great English Dictionary. They met at the Turk's Head tavern and called it simply The Club.
Members included Edmund Burke, David Garrick, the most famous actor of his age, Adam Smith of The Wealth of Nations, the historian Edward Gibbon, and James Boswell, Johnson's biographer.
The pub is long gone, but The Club still meets today at Brooks's, the gentlemen's club in St James's.
Fight all day, dine together in the night!
The Pinafore Room, The Savoy, London
Churchill was thought too controversial for The Club, so he started his own in 1911: The Other Club.
Rule 12: "Nothing in the rules or intercourse of the Club shall interfere with the rancour or asperity of party politics."
Translation: fight all day, dine together at night.
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Cover art for my co-edited volume with @HorcherF on the Ritter School!
We introduce their post-war German political thought to English speaking audiences, examining the question of how to pick up the pieces amidst the “ruins” of civilizational collapse.
Great to see the book cover of our multi-authored publication project co-edited with @ryan_holston , about the most important school of post-war German moderate conservatism. It comes out early next year.
Cover art for my co-edited volume with @HorcherF on the Ritter School!
We introduce their post-war German political thought to English speaking audiences, examining the question of how to pick up the pieces amidst the “ruins” of civilizational collapse.
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It’s crucial! And not focused on often enough. Aquinas and the Market is another good book. Also so much from CST that applies. Important also to save capitalism without it becoming crony or an easy pastiche which socialism attacks.
There are as many histories, as participants and eyewitnesses of history. These are parallel, often overlaping universes.
Analytical conservatism - in three steps.
STEP 1.
"...descriptive metaphysics is the kind represented by Aristotle, by the commonsense philosophy of Thomas Reid, and the ordinary language philosophy of J. L. Austin and Strawson himself."
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My essay “The Metaphysical Foundations of Conservatism” appeared in the 2022 anthology Dissident Philosophers, edited by T. Allan Hillman and Tully Borland. I notice that it has been posted at PhilArchive: philarchive.org/archive/EDWT…
STEP 2.
"This approach to metaphysical investigation is, I submit, pretty closely parallel to what a Burke, Oakeshott, or Scruton would say about the conservative approach to evaluating moral and political practices and institutions."
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