Comments on: Brooks Puts On His Deep Thinking Cap (V) http://larison.org/2006/10/15/brooks-puts-on-his-deep-thinking-cap-v/ n. the principle of good order "Observe the strange inversion of all order and sense! Dignity debased; how vilely is the function of a consul prostituted!" ~The Craftsman Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:56:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Pithlord http://larison.org/2006/10/15/brooks-puts-on-his-deep-thinking-cap-v/#comment-4810 Mon, 16 Oct 2006 03:00:13 +0000 http://larison.org/2006/10/15/brooks-puts-on-his-deep-thinking-cap-v/#comment-4810 I was interested in your side-swipe against social democracy, by which I take you to mean public goods and social insurance schemes financed by progressive taxation. Obviously, such things can be financially unsustainable or promote bad behaviour. But they don't need to. You're obviously not a libertarian, so I don't understand your objection. I was interested in your side-swipe against social democracy, by which I take you to mean public goods and social insurance schemes financed by progressive taxation. Obviously, such things can be financially unsustainable or promote bad behaviour. But they don’t need to. You’re obviously not a libertarian, so I don’t understand your objection.

]]> by: Daniel Larison http://larison.org/2006/10/15/brooks-puts-on-his-deep-thinking-cap-v/#comment-4807 Sun, 15 Oct 2006 22:26:39 +0000 http://larison.org/2006/10/15/brooks-puts-on-his-deep-thinking-cap-v/#comment-4807 You're right. I was going with the first thing that came to mind, and the first thing that came to mind was wrong. You’re right. I was going with the first thing that came to mind, and the first thing that came to mind was wrong.

]]> by: Mild Colonial Boy http://larison.org/2006/10/15/brooks-puts-on-his-deep-thinking-cap-v/#comment-4806 Sun, 15 Oct 2006 22:04:02 +0000 http://larison.org/2006/10/15/brooks-puts-on-his-deep-thinking-cap-v/#comment-4806 While I agree with your argument I just have a small pedantic quibble. Doesn't Venetoi mean "The Blues" and Prasinoi mean "The Greens"? While I agree with your argument I just have a small pedantic quibble. Doesn’t Venetoi mean “The Blues” and Prasinoi mean “The Greens”?

]]> by: Daniel Larison http://larison.org/2006/10/15/brooks-puts-on-his-deep-thinking-cap-v/#comment-4805 Sun, 15 Oct 2006 19:48:28 +0000 http://larison.org/2006/10/15/brooks-puts-on-his-deep-thinking-cap-v/#comment-4805 It is in the use of "abstract" as a pejorative label that I am associating him with the real traditonalists. Of course it isn't really Kirkian; it is meant to sound Kirkian. That was the point. It is in the use of “abstract” as a pejorative label that I am associating him with the real traditonalists. Of course it isn’t really Kirkian; it is meant to sound Kirkian. That was the point.

]]> by: scriblerus http://larison.org/2006/10/15/brooks-puts-on-his-deep-thinking-cap-v/#comment-4804 Sun, 15 Oct 2006 18:50:15 +0000 http://larison.org/2006/10/15/brooks-puts-on-his-deep-thinking-cap-v/#comment-4804 I wouldn't be too, too impressed by Brooks' column. When he calls theology abstract, he's not channelling traditionalist conservatism but liberal Protestantism, whose refrain has always been "Christianity is a life, not a doctrine." This is Shailer Matthews (U. Chicago, incidentally) and Harry Emerson Fosdick, not Russell Kirk. Ultimately, it's just John Dewey's evolutionary and pragmatic approach to knowledge with a religious spin on it. I'd actually file this with Jeffrey Hart's invocation of William James as the true philosophical guide for conservatives from last December. I wouldn’t be too, too impressed by Brooks’ column. When he calls theology abstract, he’s not channelling traditionalist conservatism but liberal Protestantism, whose refrain has always been “Christianity is a life, not a doctrine.” This is Shailer Matthews (U. Chicago, incidentally) and Harry Emerson Fosdick, not Russell Kirk. Ultimately, it’s just John Dewey’s evolutionary and pragmatic approach to knowledge with a religious spin on it.

I’d actually file this with Jeffrey Hart’s invocation of William James as the true philosophical guide for conservatives from last December.

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