He revived in our Christian consciousness ancient and eternal truths, but under new names: the fundamental truth about collective essence of the World Soul and the consummate truth about the life of the dead. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Auguste Comte
Angels and Demons
I have seen that every man receives at his birth two spirits, one good, the other evil. The good one is heavenly by nature and belongs to the lowest hierarchy; the evil one is not a devil, not yet in torments, though deprived of the vision of God. ~ Anne Catherine Emmerich Continue reading
Conditions of Corporeal Manifestation
There are five conditions which corporeal existence is subject to: space, time, matter, form, and life. A body is a material form living in time and space. Continue reading
Liberalism and the Folk
Liberalism As to tolerance, it is surprising how far removed from the equity and prudence of the Church are those who profess what is called Liberalism. For, in allowing that boundless license of which We have spoken, they exceed all limits and end at last by making no apparent distinction … Continue reading
Law of Development
Solovyov wants to go beyond the personal to the general and asks about the goal of human existence in general. Since man is always in community, Solovyov claims that “the dignity of the personal and immediate goals of a human life can define itself only by its relationship to that common and final goal for which it serves as the means.” Continue reading
Order and Progress
Positivists will always acknowledge the close relation between their own system and the memorable effort of medieval Catholicism. In offering for the acceptance of Humanity a new organization of life, we would not dissociate it with all that has gone before. On the contrary, it is our boast that we are but proposing for her maturity the accomplishment of the noble effort of her youth, an effort made when intellectual and social conditions precluded the possibility of success. Continue reading
Solidarity and Continuity
Auguste Comte was a 19th century French philosopher, although seldom read today. He called his philosophical system Positivism and he is rightly regarded as the founder of sociology as a science. Dismayed by the French revolution and its aftermaths, Comte was motivated to put the civilization of the Middle Ages … Continue reading