{"id":5016,"date":"2012-10-14T12:06:26","date_gmt":"2012-10-14T16:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/?p=5016"},"modified":"2020-10-14T05:17:27","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T09:17:27","slug":"principle-iii-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/?p=5016","title":{"rendered":"Principle III: Order"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nAlthough he described himself as a pagan, the influence of Thomism on Charles Maurras<\/strong> is quite clear. Being and Order, for him, are coterminous. I don’t know the extent of Donoso Cortes’ influence on Maurras, but Maurras also rejects endless discussion, claiming that to debate order, which has a mathematical-like certainty, is a waste of time. To choose disorder (or chaos) is to choose death and annihilation. Man, such as he is, needs to hold firm to his fixed reference points (or road signs?); modernity, on the other hand, wants to knock over every one of them. Who is left to still remember them and celebrate them on the calendar?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nFrom Chapter II, “Principles”, L’Ordre<\/i>, of Mes Idées Politique, by Charles Maurras<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

As no face could exist without the features that surround it and the line which contains it, as soon as the Being begins to move away from its opposite, as soon as the Being is, it has its form, it has its order, and it is that same thing from which it is limited that forms it. What existence is without essence? What is Being without law? In all the degrees of the scale, the Being weakens when order diminishes; it dissolves as soon as order no longer holds.<\/p>\n

Order is only a means. It is a point of departure. To reestablish order restores an atmosphere favorable to the action of the spirit as well as that of the body. That order makes work possible or better. It guarantees it duration, supplies it with assistants or protectors.<\/p>\n

Humane rule does not consist in killing, destroying, nor annihilating the subject whom it must, on the contrary, develop while maintaining him on his path.<\/p>\n

The necessity to subordinate<\/em> in order to coordinate and order, there is no rhetorical nonsense that can go against that mathematics!<\/p>\n

To be conformed to order shortens and facilitates work. To contradict or debate order is to waste time.<\/p>\n

Order, they say, is a higher justice.<\/p>\n

For historical and political order, to have<\/em> it is nothing, to hold<\/em> it is nothing, if one is not also in a position to keep<\/em> it.<\/p>\n

In war as in peace, order is precious among all the goods. With its fake hardness, with its apparent strictness, it saves lives, as it measures and makes use of efforts.<\/p>\n

The soldier who complains about the order is the enemy of himself. The blind kindness that joins in with this soldier is an enemy of the soldier. An unconscious and involuntary enemy; what does the intention matter if it sends him to his death?<\/p>\n

Precisely because he is ungrateful and weak, because forgetfulness and fickleness are normal for him, man notices early on that it is necessary for him to look again, in Time that is constantly changing, for some points of fixed reference, for invariable points of support, whenever he wants to realize a plan of any importance, or he wants to be faithful to his goal and his love.<\/p>\n

I deliberately write this last word, which only expresses the sentiment of persons; for if strong passions have their anniversary rites, if a return of certain dates leads to a natural return of thought to the joyful or sorrowful mysteries of the life of the heart, or even more so, when it is no longer a question of a sole being, but of a society, a religion, a cause, then will it be necessary to immortalize happy or gloomy memories on their dates.<\/p>\n

Do not forget<\/strong>: this is the starting point of all order and all law.<\/p>\n

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⇐ Principle II: Force<\/a>   Principle IV: Authority (Its Nature) ⇒<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although he described himself as a pagan, the influence of Thomism on Charles Maurras is quite clear. Being and Order, for him, are coterminous. I don’t know the extent of Donoso Cortes’ influence on Maurras, but Maurras also rejects endless discussion, claiming that to debate order, which has a mathematical-like … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[746,753],"class_list":["post-5016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maurras","tag-mes-idees-politiques","tag-my-political-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13122,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5016\/revisions\/13122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}