Category: Del Noce, Augusto

Rocco Buttiglione on Philosophy, Politics, and Economics

“Society has to defend itself to a certain extent against the tyranny of the [nihilist] state.” Rocco Buttiglione (Italian: [b. 6 June 1948) is an Italian Union of Christian and Centre Democrats politician and an academic. He was a close friend of Pope John Paul II. Buttiglione’s nomination for a post as European Commissioner with a portfolio that was to include civil… Read More Rocco Buttiglione on Philosophy, Politics, and Economics

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Del Noce on Liberalism & the Scientism of Marx

“The order marked for destruction can be summed up in one word: Europe—the intellectual and spiritual synthesis of Rome, Athens, and Jerusalem. The new totalitarianism proceeds by negating every form of transcendence, especially the religious truth and universal reason which Del Noce calls “Platonism.” It reconceives reality as “a system of forces, not of values.” Being… Read More Del Noce on Liberalism & the Scientism of Marx

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America’s Feast Days — To Itself

For Catholics our every Eucharist is Thanksgiving day (lit. from Koinē Greek: εὐχαριστία). And only a neopagan nation could conceive of a national syncretic Thanksgiving Day apart from the Eucharist. This is American simulacra. SH. By Solange Strong Hertz. Thanksgiving and more. “…[R]eligion, of course, is what the [1776-1789] Revolution is all about, for no one… Read More America’s Feast Days — To Itself

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