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2016 Ciceronian Society Conference
Information on the 2016 Ciceronian Society Conference and the Call for Papers
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Privileges, Responsibilities and Higher Education
Education is primarily about the privilege of personal responsibility each of us has been given, and that means attending to who we are as particular beings living in a particular time and place, with irreducible and intrinsically both enjoyable and deeply demanding responsibilities as friends, parents, children, citizens, and creatures capable by nature of living in the truth.
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Thomas More on the Perils of Modern Mobility
Half a millennium after its publication, More’s Utopia is astonishingly prescient regarding the dangers that mobile technologies pose to the values that we associate with tradition, home, place, and reverence for the divine.
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Is History an Upward Progression?
Do the events of the past provide evidence that man has progressed ever upward toward greater technological, economic, and epistemological capacities with few or no limits?
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Nihilism and the Internet Age
How the Internet is the embodiment of a philosophical worldview that denies the reality of an objective order of purpose and meaning

ANAMNESIS WEB ESSAYS

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Privileges, Responsibilities and Higher Education

We conservatives are and should be suspicious of the modern distinction between rights and duties. Both words seem too modern, too abstract, too detached from the realities of a particular… Read more »

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2016 Ciceronian Society Conference

The 2016 Annual Meeting of the Ciceronian Society will be held at Mount Saint Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, MD, March 10–12, 2016 Interested in presenting? Review our Call for Papers Deadline for… Read more »

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Thomas More on the Perils of Modern Mobility

There is a telling moment early in Thomas More’s Utopia when the traveler Raphael Hythloday—who will soon claim to have visited the Island of Utopia—recounts meeting a group of foreign… Read more »

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Is History an Upward Progression?

In 1848, English historian Thomas Babington Macaulay, writing of English history since the Glorious Revolution of 1688, confidently proclaimed English history was “eminently the history physical, of moral, and of… Read more »

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Nihilism and the Internet Age

The last few years have seen a remarkable number of publications grappling with the negative effects of the Internet. These books describe, from various points of view, the unintended consequences… Read more »

ANAMNESIS PRINT

Sample Print Edition Content

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  • Free Fathers and Sons: The Principle of Love in Turgenev’s Liberalism Lee Trepanier
  • Tradition and the Experience of Citizenship: Political Hermeneutics in Hans-Georg Gadamer, John Dewey, and Hannah Arendt Hans-Jörg Sigwart
  • Friendship and Politics in No Country for Old Men, Gran Torino, and Up Jerome C. Foss
  • Harry Jaffa’s Egalitarian Natural Law Geoffrey M. Vaughan
  • Michael Oakeshott’s Democratic Voice Review Essay of Michael Minch’s The Democratic Theory of Michael Oakeshott Luke Philip Plotica

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