Your Email:

Subject:

Message:
Entry: The Neocons and Charles Maurras Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/leo_strauss_the_neocons_and_charles_maurras#6509 Post contents: It would be a mistake to presume that Maurras “cynically” used the church for political ends. As a positivist, he would have rejected the theological and metaphysical explanations of the Church’s origin and mission, considering it instead a brute fact. As such, he saw Catholicism as continuing the Greek/Roman classical tradition—which he loved—and as being the authentic religion historically of the French nation. He therefore loved Catholicism as a strictly natural manifestation, especially since it embodied the sociological laws: “All my favourite ideas -- order, tradition, discipline, hierarchy, authority, continuity, unity, work, family, corporation, decentralisation, autonomy, organisation of workers -- had been preserved and perfected by Catholicism.” He seemed to accept Catholicism’s moral teachings (as did Comte) and even the socio-economic teaching (“corporativism”) of the recent popes of his time. Sent at: 2008 05 16