Blogroll
- Where To Go To Follow The Unfolding Moderna Shot Manslaughter Case In Sweden, And A Few Words About Stepped Up Engagement In The War
- St. John of Kronstadt on the Saints
- St. Elizabeth the New Martyr in Cullman, AL
- Homily on the Sunday of All Saints
- First Sunday after Pentecost
- A Living Proof of the Burning Faith
- Moses of Optina
- Seymour Hersh Asks The Question On Everybody's Mind: WHO IS RUNNING THE COUNTRY? Biden Insiders Speak On Record "They're Trapped"
- What Was Funny? My Only Concern Right Now, As An American
- Remembrances for July – 2024
- MORE PAIN FOR IMPLODING DEMOCRAT JUNTA: SCOTUS OVERTURNS UNLAWFUL J6 PROSECUTIONS, J6 POLITICAL PRISONERS JUBILANT: "OUR 1512 HAS BEEN OVERTURNED. I AM NOT A FELON"
- America Wakes Up To Surreal Dream: RFK Jr. Got Most Viewers By Landslide Yet Is Un-Personed, While Trump and Biden Fight Inside CNN Box Where No Covid Genocide Is Mentioned
- Presidential Debate Outtake: Trump Strong, Biden Weak, RFK Jr. Soaring In Popularity From Adjacent Debate
- Interview 1889 – Assange is Free, But Speech…? Not so much. (NWNW 559)
- Clearing the Decks – Questions For Corbett
- Offsite Post: ‘What Would Make US Billionaires More Generous?’
- Episode 461 – I Read The Most Dangerous Superstition (And You Can, Too!)
- Here’s Why the World is Falling Apart (and What You Can Do About It!)
- Interview 1888 – James Corbett on How the Media Sausage is Made
- Offsite Post: ‘We Probably Shouldn’t Call Them Fossil Fuels’
- Interview 1887 – James Corbett Predicts the CBDC Rollout on Reality Check Radio
- Offsite Post: ‘Putting Trump’s Conviction in Historical Perspective’
- Offsite Post: ‘States Shouldn’t Kowtow to Racially-Gerrymandering Courts’
- Offsite Post: ‘“Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” Captures the Essence of Americanism’
- The Roots of Sunday as a Day of Rest and Worship
- Can Work Ruin a Feast Day? Insights from Elder Paisios
- Three Days Preceding Pascha: Insights into Holy Week
- CHD Asks Supreme Court to Hear Case Alleging FDA Misused Emergency Power by Authorizing COVID Shots for Children
- “May my Prayer be Set before You…” Exploring a Lenten Chant
- 2024 Secret Angel Christmas Charity Campaign Results
- The Other Child
- CHD Wins in Los Angeles ‘Smart City’ Public Records Case, Gaining Access to Thousands of Withheld Documents Regarding Rollout of Artificial Intelligence
- ‘Alleluia’: Exploring the Depth of the Shortest Doxology
- Judge Rules in Historic CHD Lawsuit Challenging Fast-tracking of Wireless Infrastructure in Los Angeles
- CHD Supports the Motion Against U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Alleging Fraud in Omnibus Autism Proceeding
- CHD to Host ‘The Rally to Reclaim Free Speech’ as SCOTUS Hears Landmark Censorship Case Murthy v. Missouri
- Autobiography of Alexandros Papadiamantis
- A hindu convert to Orthodoxy
- Un hindus convertit la Ortodoxie
- Alexandros Papadiamantis Resource Page
- How Great Spiritual Figures of Greece Helped Form the Renowned Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos
- Artificial Intelligence as Artificial Brilliance (Metr. Hierotheos of Nafpaktos)
- How to fight any passion
- Pr. Serghei Baranov – Cum să te lupți împotriva oricărei patimi
- The Catacomb Church (1991)
- Movie: "Men of Anjolos" (1997) - An Islamic Movie on the Life of the Seven Youths of Ephesus
- The story of a repentant Sergian Priest!
- A brutal crush and a dark Ecclesiastical secret!
- Tortured for Orthodoxy: concerning Mother Joanna (†1998)
- The Bitten Apple of Apple Inc. (Metr. Hierotheos of Nafpaktos)
- 41 Testimonies: on Sergianism and the "ecclesial" status of the Soviet Church
- Hymn of love
- Imnul iubirii
- The Eternal Day
- Follow Me
- I will give you rest
- Single Mind, Simple Life – Gospel for the Third Sunday of Matthew
- Save your soul with fear of God
- Enduring skillfully
- Orthodoxy is unique
Cele mai citite
- Să învățăm să iubim
- Clark Carlton: Modernity considers sub-natural existence the sumit of human progress
- Dostoevsky for Parents and Children: (IV) Merchant Skotoboinikov's Story
- O mica problema de retorica
- 101 carti de necitit intr-o viata
- O stire: moartea presei.
- Totalitarism homosexual
- Alternativa Nicusor Dan. Nula
- Cu ochii larg închiși
- Evolutionism pe intelesul tuturor
Presupozitiile circului | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
Polemici |
Scris de Ninel Ganea |
Marţi, 13 Mai 2014 09:54 |
De pilda, prima presupozitie, cu o acoperire larga si o variatie pe masura, tinteste caracterul sacrosant al actiunii umane individuale. Intr-o interpretare plebee, acest principiu stipuleaza ca fiecare are dreptul sa faca tot ceea ce vrea, cat timp nu-l agreseaza pe cel de langa el sau bunurile sale. In literatura libertariana, teoria poarta numele de principul non-agresiunii, iar dintr-un rezumat celebru al lui John Stuart Mill aflam ca “libertatea pumnului tau se opreste unde incepe nasul meu”. Problemele acestui principiu sunt multiple, iar ca standard minimal poate reprezenta un inceput de discutie onest, insa principala hiba o constituie, asa cum a punctat excelent, undeva, prietenul meu C., separarea unei presupuse virtuti a non-agresiunii din pachetul mai mult sau mai putin complet al virtutilor. “Cine nu le urmareste 'la pachet' nu urmareste de fapt nici una”. Ideea ca oamenii vor internaliza doar respectarea acestui principiu sau a altuia la fel de minimal, punandu-le in paranteze pe celelalte, desprinse de orice traditie morala, este o utopie in sine. Nici macar una foarte atractiva, daca idealul il constituie o comunitate de indivizii care au doar acest lucru in comun. Adeptii unei astfel de teorii vor avea foarte putine lucruri de spus cu sens, in legatura cu alte chestiuni, potrivit propriei filozofii. “I don't punch people for no reason isn't the beginning and end of a decent human life”, afirma si libertarianul catolic Thomas Woods. Nu se poate construi nimic solid pe aceste premise, iar rezultatele practice merg aproape invariabil in directia libertinismului, care, in cele din urma, ajunge sa mature pe jos inclusiv cu pretentia de nonagresiune. Sau cum se exprima astazi adeptii corectitudinii politice: “nu vom tolera intoleranta” (aceasta din urma fiind orice expresie de dezaprobare a religiei PC). O a doua presupozitie fundamentala o constituie caracacterul autonom al artei, in raport cu valorile morale, si relativ, in raport cu standardele estetice, oricare ar fi ele, in cazul in care exista. Practic, totul se reduce la originalitatea nestavilita a artistului. A incerca sa omologhezi o creatie artistica si prin incarcatura morala ultragiaza sensibilitatile contemporane. “Este evident ca idealul romantic al artei de dragul artei inseamna, in lumea reala, arta de dragul senzatiilor”, scria, pe la inceptul secolului trecut, Irving Babbitt, comentand si anticipand explozia de cacofonii “artistice”. Arta golita din capul locului de continut etic reprezinta cel mai bun vehicul pentru a dinamita politic prejudecatile si conceptiile “invechite”. Nu e nimic neobisnuit in faptul ca artistii cei mai libertini sunt portdrapelul celor mai radicale ideologii. In final, singurul sens pe care il mai poate avea arta este de propaganda a ideologiei oficiale. Castigatorul Eurovision, care nu e o manifestare artistica, dar trece drept arta pop, a declarat ca dedica victoria “tuturor celor care cred intr-un viitor al pacii si libertatii; suntem de neoprit”. Bineinteles ca pentru cei care prefera libertatea de a spune “nu”, viitorul se opreste undeva mult mai devreme. In alta ordine de idei, dar in aceeasi lume reala, relativismul estetic conduce aproape in mod necesar la o dictatura a “expertilor” a si “specialistilor” care vor decide prin ucaz atat directia de urmat, cat si omologarea stricta a capodoperelor, in contradictie cu intuitii dintre cele mai banale. Cat timp este relativism, fiecare are in principiu o sansa, insa, in fapt, singurul lucru promovat este nihilismul. O a treia presupozitie importanta in configuratia mentala a modernului o reprezinta ideea unei societatii deschise. Cu alte cuvinte, nu ar trebui sa existe intr-o societate valori care sa fie imune la examenul critic al indivizilor. Fiecare persoana poate chestiona bazele sociale, iar comunitatea va beneficia de pe urma acestei evaluari constante, urmand, se presupune, un model din stiintele naturii. Lasand la o parte alte probleme semnificative, teoria in sine este auto-ruinatoare logic, iar in practica duce invariabil la despotism soft, in prima faza. De asemenea, ignora date antropologice primare. “There are some things in which the group needs to believe which cannot be demonstrated to everyone rationally. Their acceptance is pressed upon us by a kind of moral imperative arising from the group as a whole. To put them to the test of the dialectic alone is to destroy the basis of belief in them and to weaken the cohesiveness of society” (Richard Weaver – The Cultural Role of Rhetoric). Nicio societate nu poate trece testul unei culturi a criticii, iar prejudecatile Whig, care incalzesc egoul contemporanilor, mandri de libertatile noastre nelimitate, nu sunt altceva decat prejudecati. Incercati sa afirmati, doar de dragul scandalului, ceva mai putin sanatos pentru un progresivist si asteptati reactia apoi. Nu va fi deloc ceva foarte politicos. Nu in ultimul rand, o presupozitie “de bun simt” este ca nu exista conspiratii. Premiile la concursuri se acorda natural unor persoane nenaturale, artistii la moda au doar intamplator aceeasi ideologie, nu exista o strategie oculta pentru impunerea unei agende politice si morale, samd. Exista doar indivizii si alegerile lor…. |