The Denial of the Transcendent
The absence of God and the growing hubris in failing to recognise the fundamental relationships of Existence (i.e. the nexus between contingent and necessary Being grounded in a Univocity of Being)
Friedrich Hermann Hartmann, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
“The theory ofliberal democracy,as well as ofcommunism,originated in the first and second waves of modernity; the political implication of thethird wave proved to be fascism.
Yet thisundeniable factdoes not permit us to return to the earlier forms of modern thought:the critique of modern rationalism or of the modern belief in reason by Nietzsche cannot be dismissed or forgotten.This is the deepest reason for the crisis of liberal democracy.
The theoretical crisis does not necessarily lead to a practical crisis, for the superiority of liberal democracy to communism. Stalinist or post-Stalinist, is obvious enough.
And above all,liberal democracy, in contradistinction to communism and fascism, derives powerful support from a way of thinking which cannot be called modern at all: the premodern thought of our western tradition”…
— Leo Strauss, Three Waves of Modernity
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“Traditionalism and Fascism cannot be confused, becausetraditionalism must necessarily go back to Plato, whereas Mussolini and Hitler came “After”Nietzsche and his “destruction” of the idea of Truth”…
— Augusto del Noce
“Plato was the philosophical founder of Europe”…
— Augusto del Noce
19th-Century Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche’s proclamation that “God is dead” [LINK] signalled the collapse of the belief in the metaphysical foundation of meaning & intelligibility (i.e. Logos) to man’s participation in Reality.
One that seeks a higher metaphysical intellectual, moral & spiritual orientation towards a final purpose (Telos) and understanding (Teleology) anchored in a Christian God, Divine Redemption (Christian Theology), Christian Platonism [LINK], Kantian Noumenal Truths and Divine Order.
Instead, this Post-Nietzschean interpretation of Reality was increasingly ignoring the fundamental relationships of Existence (i.e. the nexus between contingent (Created) and necessary (Creator) Being grounded in a Univocity of Being (Duns Scotus) [LINK]) and the Metaxic nature of Human Being [LINK].
“What unites the various manifestations of this spiritual disorder — positivism, progressivism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, liberalism, fascism, National Socialism — is the radical “will to immanentisation”, the closure toward the transcendent dimension of human experience, that underlies their construction.
Indeed,the most extreme modern ideologies go a step further; their proponents not only reject the transcendent ground but seek to “abolish the constitution of being, with its origin in divine, transcendent being, and to replace it with a world-immanent order of being”.
They aim to bring about the transfiguration of human nature through human action in history and to build a terrestrial paradise endowed with the meaning and salvational qualities of the Christian eschaton”…
— Linda Raeder, Voegelin on Gnosticism, Modernity, and the Balance of Consciousness
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A Modern & Post-Modern re-interpretation of our understanding of the nature of Reality (i.e. Metaphysics - Study of Being) with an Immanent Transcendence of the Self [LINK] - an overcoming - selbstüberwindung - a Nietzschean Will to Power [LINK], a Theology of Marxism [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] and Modern Gnosticism [LINK].
“Thefirst principleofGnosticismis thenon-recognition of reality”…
— Eric Voegelin
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A Philosophy of Mechanisation [LINK]
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A Primacy of Human Consciousness [LINK] and Primacy of Man [LINK].
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A modern and post-modern world where liberalism was morphing into socialism & communism and ultimately into fascism ( refer Leo Strauss - Three Waves of Modernity [LINK]).
"TheIn-Between of experiencehas adead pointfrom whichsymbols emerge as the exegesis of its truth, but whichcannot become itself an object of propositional knowledge"…
— Eric Voegelin
It represents a Modern and Post-Modern collapse in the understanding of the Metaxic **** [LINK] nature of Human Being [LINK] - the intelligibility of Being, Knowing and Meaning. [LINK] grounded in three modes of Being (Peirce).
**** Note - The concept of Metaxy [LINK] is illuminated through the manifestation of God’s presence on earth by the birth, life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. A Doctrine of Incarnation that is central to understanding how Christianity distinguishes itself from all other religions. The belief that God became fully human in Jesus Christ while remaining fully divine. An Incarnation that literally means the embodiment of the Divine Being of God in the earthly anthropomorphic form of Jesus Christ as a Mortal Being.
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A Nietzschean Modern & Post-Modern illusion of liberation. [LINK]
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Modern Man’s attempted revolt against God, Nature, and Himself. [LINK]
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The Anthropomorphism of Christian Theology, Philosophy and Metaphysics.[LINK]
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A denial of the Triadic of Being. [LINK]
A denial of the Scholastic Foundations [LINK] of Education (e.g. Modern University).
A denial of the importance of Faith to Reason. [LINK]
A denial of a Divine Order of Things. [LINK]
A denial of Thomist Philosophy [LINK] and the Triadic Structures of Reality. [LINK]
A denial of the Hypostasis. [LINK]
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A denial of the Christian Trinity and Platonism’s Three Fundamental Realities. [LINK]
A denial of Plato’s Realm of the Forms - eternal, immutable, and perfect realities - that ground all sensible things. [LINK]
The Metaphysical Normative Sciences of Truth, Beauty ( Aesthetics) and Justice (Ethics & Morals) that form part of a Universality of Reason and a Unity of Being - Ideal Being, Real Being and Moral Being (Rosmini) and Man’s participation in the Univocity of Being (Duns Scotus) [LINK].
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