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To: CatoRenasci
Wonderful analysis. I don't think conservatives understand thet the fight for the soul of the nation is being fought in the philosophy departments or the universities.

It is a shame that there are very few Christian of even conservative philosophers going toe to toe with Satan's minions (the Rousseauian neo Marxists).

23 posted on 06/18/2004 8:39:55 AM PDT by FreedomSurge
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To: FreedomSurge
Thanks.

It is a shame that there are very few Christian of even conservative philosophers going toe to toe with Satan's minions (the Rousseauian neo Marxists).

What you say is true, but, unfortunately, this is a battle that will have to be fought by secular conservative philosophers. I think it is a simple statement of fact that explicitly Christian philosophy would simply not be taken seriously in the university philosophy departments. Professional philosophers, even those seriously interested in epistomology, ethics, and eschatology, do not take explicity Christian arguments about such matters seriously because they argue from authority, rather than matters that be argued rationally. I can't think of an academic philosopher in the Anglo-American world in the 20th century who made explicity Christian arguments about anything who was read by the 1970s, let alone today. Lewis, perhaps in England, but who was regarded as a popularlizer, and, in Germany, Max Scheler in the '20s (known as the "Christian Nietzsche) and that's about it.

What I think would be required for the battle in the philosophy departments even to be joined would be a compelling re-examination of the Lockean tradition, but I've no idea how that would look.

25 posted on 06/18/2004 8:52:27 AM PDT by CatoRenasci (Ceterum Censeo Arabiam Esse Delendam -- Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit)
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