One of the biggest tragedies of the 20th century was that German thought and civilization was effectively isolated and made taboo.
The wisdom of Goethe, the stories and history of the Habsburgs and Hohenzollerns, the ideals of the Empire, all identified as part of "the enemy"
While World War 2 was certainly what caused this in the immediate sense, it began at World War 1 with the Allies deciding to make the War and Versailles about pushing a Liberal agenda.
This is a crucial part of the crisis in the world and in the Church that is often forgotten about today. The trappings of the Christian Empire that was still baked into the institutions in Central Europe were made to be "other" and later destroyed. I believe that if the modern world is to ever come to a sense of sanity beyond Liberal nihilism, it will have to look to many of those pre-War ideas from the Heart of Europe in order to regain its soul.
Just got done watching Nolan’s Odyssey. Was surprised to find it to be a good film and was impressed by how he captured the essence of the poem. One of my favorite Nolan films. There is also no egregious sexual material. It’s safe to watch. It is terrifying in some situations and so not recommended for kids.
It’s just the Odyssey with all the major themes preserved and well-acted. I actually think the casting was great. I think the right-wing criticism is stuck in 2016 anti-SJW commentary. Will probably write more about this.
A remark about Jay Dyer’s latest comments with Tucker Carlson on how Nominalism and Occam led to transgenderism through its influence on the Protestant reformation and beyond:
For people listening to Tucker Carlson with no prior philosophical experience, this should make people think about *reality* and wake them up from their slumber of modern subjectivism. But it's a bit complicated when dealing with the direct claim in question which is more academic.
There is a need on a scholarly level for more careful analysis of Occam and Biel and there has been an excess in pointing to them as the sum of all that we consider to be "Nominalism" and then saying that they revolutionized everything. Father Copleston points this out in his History of Philosophy which should be seen as *the* standard for Catholics.
Occam specifically regarding his view of universals, is not as revolutionary as we like to make him out to be, he doesn't get enough credit for his gifted logical abilities, and in modern pop-philosophy books no regard is given to his distinction between the spoken word, the written word and the concept (direct apprehension of a concept). Instead it is seen that Occam was some overly simplistic idiot who got rid of Thomism because of its later excesses.
Biel is even more complicated, because it makes it difficult to connect him as "the nominalist" to Protestantism as Biel is one of the intellectual targets of Luther. (Oberman's book the Harvest of Medieval Theology is a starting place on how Realists can understand how there still is an influence despite this)
I think the way we can start to understand this is to realize that Ideas *do* have consequences and lead to other ideas, especially if in opposition to or in correction of an excess they are used in an overly simplistic way to signify opposition. Historical philosophy is extremely important for establishing a narrative and way of understanding the world, but in order to not get lost in the weeds we should avoid oversimplifications while pursuing the question of "How can we show that things have stable essences and that there are truly universals right now?" Thomism I believe is the best way to establish this and to *live this* en masse
This is the only article I've seen that gets even remotely close to explaining this very convoluted and confusing issue of French monarchism. Great work from Charles Coulombe
There were a lot of you who sent me messages and left comments about my first video on the Anglican Ordinariate. I received some very insightful responses. I still hold my original concerns, *however* what this whole experience has shown me is that I still have massive gaps in my knowledge regarding the English Reformation, Anglo-Catholicism but also the English Missal tradition. My episode here with Charles Coulombe begins a large series I will be doing trying to explore every facet of this tradition before I eventually come back and re-evaluate my original opinion. Thank you so much to you all for your great comments and feedback!
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One of the biggest tragedies of the 20th century was that German thought and civilization was effectively isolated and made taboo.
The wisdom of Goethe, the stories and history of the Habsburgs and Hohenzollerns, the ideals of the Empire, all identified as part of "the enemy"
While World War 2 was certainly what caused this in the immediate sense, it began at World War 1 with the Allies deciding to make the War and Versailles about pushing a Liberal agenda.
This is a crucial part of the crisis in the world and in the Church that is often forgotten about today. The trappings of the Christian Empire that was still baked into the institutions in Central Europe were made to be "other" and later destroyed. I believe that if the modern world is to ever come to a sense of sanity beyond Liberal nihilism, it will have to look to many of those pre-War ideas from the Heart of Europe in order to regain its soul.
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On this day, July 23, 1745, the Young Pretender landed in Scotland to begin the Jacobite Uprising. A sobering time to reflect on what could have been!
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Just got done watching Nolan’s Odyssey. Was surprised to find it to be a good film and was impressed by how he captured the essence of the poem. One of my favorite Nolan films. There is also no egregious sexual material. It’s safe to watch. It is terrifying in some situations and so not recommended for kids.
It’s just the Odyssey with all the major themes preserved and well-acted. I actually think the casting was great. I think the right-wing criticism is stuck in 2016 anti-SJW commentary. Will probably write more about this.
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A remark about Jay Dyer’s latest comments with Tucker Carlson on how Nominalism and Occam led to transgenderism through its influence on the Protestant reformation and beyond:
For people listening to Tucker Carlson with no prior philosophical experience, this should make people think about *reality* and wake them up from their slumber of modern subjectivism. But it's a bit complicated when dealing with the direct claim in question which is more academic.
There is a need on a scholarly level for more careful analysis of Occam and Biel and there has been an excess in pointing to them as the sum of all that we consider to be "Nominalism" and then saying that they revolutionized everything. Father Copleston points this out in his History of Philosophy which should be seen as *the* standard for Catholics.
Occam specifically regarding his view of universals, is not as revolutionary as we like to make him out to be, he doesn't get enough credit for his gifted logical abilities, and in modern pop-philosophy books no regard is given to his distinction between the spoken word, the written word and the concept (direct apprehension of a concept). Instead it is seen that Occam was some overly simplistic idiot who got rid of Thomism because of its later excesses.
Biel is even more complicated, because it makes it difficult to connect him as "the nominalist" to Protestantism as Biel is one of the intellectual targets of Luther. (Oberman's book the Harvest of Medieval Theology is a starting place on how Realists can understand how there still is an influence despite this)
I think the way we can start to understand this is to realize that Ideas *do* have consequences and lead to other ideas, especially if in opposition to or in correction of an excess they are used in an overly simplistic way to signify opposition. Historical philosophy is extremely important for establishing a narrative and way of understanding the world, but in order to not get lost in the weeds we should avoid oversimplifications while pursuing the question of "How can we show that things have stable essences and that there are truly universals right now?" Thomism I believe is the best way to establish this and to *live this* en masse
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This is the only article I've seen that gets even remotely close to explaining this very convoluted and confusing issue of French monarchism. Great work from Charles Coulombe
www.pelicanbrief.news/p/disentangling-the-bourbons
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My latest article responding to Matt Fradd and Jacob Phillips in the latest PWA episode
murrayrundus.substack.com/p/a-charitable-response-…
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There were a lot of you who sent me messages and left comments about my first video on the Anglican Ordinariate. I received some very insightful responses. I still hold my original concerns, *however* what this whole experience has shown me is that I still have massive gaps in my knowledge regarding the English Reformation, Anglo-Catholicism but also the English Missal tradition. My episode here with Charles Coulombe begins a large series I will be doing trying to explore every facet of this tradition before I eventually come back and re-evaluate my original opinion. Thank you so much to you all for your great comments and feedback!
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Read my article on Substack:
murrayrundus.substack.com/p/the-hussites-and-vatic…
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Feast of Saint Joseph the Worker, 2026 AD
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My latest article on my Substack:
open.substack.com/pub/murrayrundus/p/inadmissible-…
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