tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57213321420675987492024-02-20T01:18:37.714-08:00The King's ThoughtsThis site was created in honor of the character in "Brave Heart" that called Ireland his island. I call him the "King of Ireland" and write under this name sake in honor of all those in history who, like him, loved freedom so much they were willing to die for it. My basic theme is the history of liberty and how it relates to the modern world.King of Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11793825722325763371noreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5721332142067598749.post-23867926561718721292011-01-02T15:41:00.000-08:002011-01-02T15:45:33.661-08:00Charles J. Reid on Brian Tierney Part 3- From American Creation
Hello My Name Is Gratian And I Think I Have Something To Add To This Discussion
Hello again American Creation family! I hope you all remember me in that I do not think I have posted here since Summer. This was due to the time consuming re-launching of my real estate business after it turned out that the oil had not ruined the part of the Gulf Coast I live in forever after all. Anyway, I am King of Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11793825722325763371noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5721332142067598749.post-5514798675395825022010-12-15T17:11:00.000-08:002010-12-15T17:11:47.756-08:00Marx or Locke From 3rdWAVElands Part 3I am on a roll with the Marx or Locke thing on my real estate blog. Here is the money quote:
You mean the country that has been dominated by the economic theory of John Maynard Keynes for the last 100 years? That's right at the heart of the Keynes theory of economics is the welfare state that believes in the justice of taking private property from one group and giving it to the other. In King of Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11793825722325763371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5721332142067598749.post-76144476249834212542010-12-14T15:44:00.000-08:002010-12-14T15:44:31.202-08:00Marx or Locke From 3rdWAVElands Part 2This post is from my real estate blog again but it hits on a theme that I write about quite here quite often: Property Rights. Here is the money quote:
In fact, one can make a very good argument that the main catalyst to the American and French Revolutions was the uniting of the working class(Proletariat) and small business(Bourgeois) class to overthrow monopoly of the eliteKing of Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11793825722325763371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5721332142067598749.post-55547843190983136712010-12-13T17:35:00.000-08:002010-12-13T17:35:10.266-08:00Marx or Locke From 3rdWAVElandsThis is a post from my real estate blog but references a theme I hit on here as well. Here is the money quote:
On the other hand, Locke felt that the right to property was an inalienable right given to man by God. He thought it essential that man be allowed to keep the fruit of his labors for him to pursue happiness. Furthermore, he was absolutely against one group of people using the power of King of Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11793825722325763371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5721332142067598749.post-73808366783512789202010-09-25T12:33:00.000-07:002010-09-25T12:33:35.461-07:00Statistics Do Not LieHere is a post from my Real Estate blog 3rdWAVElands that is relevant to what I have written here about Toffler's Third Wave. It comments on a post from Richard Florida who is brilliant and has some great insights into catalysts to innovation. This theme also ties in with some of my posts about Goldstone and the creation of the modern world. Here is the post.King of Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11793825722325763371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5721332142067598749.post-44315183659384209962010-09-25T12:29:00.000-07:002010-09-25T12:29:02.716-07:00DisruptionThis is from my Real Estate blog 3rdWAVElands but is relevant to a lot of what I blog about here about Toffler's Third Wave. So here it is
.King of Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11793825722325763371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5721332142067598749.post-8126791601716313672010-07-24T18:46:00.000-07:002010-07-24T18:46:22.893-07:00Strauss and Reason vs. RevelationThere has been a lot of discussion about Leo Strauss lately in the comments section of this blog so I decided to do a post on a part of this University of Chicago Press excerpt of the book Reading Leo Strauss by Steven B. Smith. The following jumped out to me because it focuses on the reason vs. revelation debate that is very famililar to this blog:
"The great theme of Strauss’s life work—what King of Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11793825722325763371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5721332142067598749.post-8535932071141236292010-07-24T18:31:00.000-07:002010-07-24T18:31:43.836-07:00Kraynak: Christianity vs. Modernity IIBy Robert P. Hunt
The following is a short excerpt of this essay:
"In Christian Faith and Modern Democracy: God and Politics in the Fallen World, Robert P. Kraynak challenges many of the assumptions made by both liberal secularists and committed Christians regarding the proper intellectual and moral foundations for constitutional government. He rejects the liberal assumption that some King of Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11793825722325763371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5721332142067598749.post-59677713747327038452010-07-24T18:02:00.000-07:002010-07-24T18:03:15.436-07:00Kraynak: Modernity vs. ChristianityBy Robert P. Hunt
The following is a small excerpt from this essay:
"Nowhere is Kraynak’s effort to baptize classical political philosophy more evident than in his treatment of Plato's and Cicero’s defense of a "mixed regime." The ancients understood "the advantages of a mixed regime in promoting a stable and balanced order that combines freedom and virtue in the citizen body with feelings ofKing of Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11793825722325763371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5721332142067598749.post-63622729204908879752010-07-13T21:52:00.000-07:002010-07-13T21:52:29.527-07:00Does it Really Matter If George Washington Took Communion or Not? IIFor many months now Jon Rowe, Tom Van Dyke, and I have been discussing Jon's claim, via Dr. Gregg Frazer, that founding era Christians had to come up with new and creative ways to interpret the Bible to justify their resistance to what they perceived was tyranny. In short, Jon seems to think that these were "dissident" and "revisionist" views that were heavily influence by Enlightenment thinking.King of Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11793825722325763371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5721332142067598749.post-3877857463500597552010-06-29T13:46:00.000-07:002010-06-29T13:46:42.695-07:00Theistic Rationalism: Is it a Theological or Historical Term? IIIn the comments section of a recent post by Jon Rowe Dr. Gregg Frazer stated the following:
"So, my statement stands irrespective of Tom's claim that unitarians, who worshiped an entirely different god than did Christians, were Christians."
To which I responded:
"I see a lot of Calvinists state this but find it absurd. If they are worshipping the God of Exodus 34:5-7 then that is the God ofKing of Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11793825722325763371noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5721332142067598749.post-60508742381365358382010-06-29T13:39:00.000-07:002010-06-29T13:41:16.479-07:00Theistic Rationalism: Is it a Theological or Historical Term?A recent post by Jon Rowe quoted Dr. Gregg Frazer as stating the following:
"[Eighth, Mr. Knapton accuses me of “unintended sophistry” in pointing out that the theistic rationalists did not believe that Jesus was God and he suggests that there was “a strain of Christian thought” which taught that Jesus was subordinate to God. Methinks the sophistry is one the other foot, however. Mr. Knapton King of Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11793825722325763371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5721332142067598749.post-58934912482272314132010-06-17T09:24:00.000-07:002010-06-17T09:24:25.727-07:00Collectivism vs. Individualism Explained
This is a great interview that cuts through all the crap and gets down to the two sets of beliefs that have shaped the world for centuries: Collectivism and Individualism. The former is at the heart of every totalitarian form of government there is and is at the heart of Hayek's The Road to Serfdom.King of Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11793825722325763371noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5721332142067598749.post-68182397334969551172010-06-16T19:27:00.000-07:002010-06-16T19:28:03.329-07:00Is the Tea Party Really Serious About a Return to the Founding?In 1793, in reaction to the French Revolution, much of Europe broke out into war. At the time, there was also an intense internal battle going on between the Hamiltonian Federalists and the Jeffersonian Republicans that was turning nasty and venomous. In fact, both men deplored one another and sought to sabotage the efforts of each other whenever possible. Nonetheless, even in the midst of this King of Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11793825722325763371noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5721332142067598749.post-51832366409948600312010-06-16T15:27:00.000-07:002010-06-16T15:28:07.837-07:00The Scholastics: A Forgotten History IIIThis blog post entitled, "The Late-Scholastic and Austrian Link to Modern Catholic Economic Thought" by Rev. Robert A. Sirico gives some great insight into the economic thought of the late scholastics and its underlying principle that the economic interactions of people were more important to study than an analysis of the things produced. Simply put it makes people more important King of Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11793825722325763371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5721332142067598749.post-21114359153518353392010-06-16T14:45:00.000-07:002010-06-16T15:28:28.583-07:00The Scolastics: A Forgotten History IIThis essay by Lew Rockwell highlights some of the roots of free market ideology as expounded on by the late Scholastics at the School of Salamanca in the 16th Century. I understand that since most of the founders were anti-papists that many seem to doubt the influence of Roman Catholic thinking on American Creation. Nonetheless, the fact that much of this thought was produced in famous European King of Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11793825722325763371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5721332142067598749.post-13848156210580244102010-06-16T14:33:00.000-07:002010-06-16T15:28:57.730-07:00The Scholastics: A Forgotten HistoryThis essay by Leonard P. Liggio of the Acton Institute highlights some important parts of European history that seem to be absent in the modern classroom as I alluded to in my last post. Here is a taste:
"The Yucatan was the center point of one of the most im- portant moral debates in history. It can be summarized in the title of the book, In Defense of the Indians: The Defense of the Most King of Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11793825722325763371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5721332142067598749.post-1861648038060002412010-06-16T14:20:00.000-07:002010-06-16T15:29:23.305-07:00A Good Discussion About the Foundation of RightsA good and productive discussion about the foundation of rights has broken out in the comments section of my last post. The following is a comment that was left by Chris that sparked the discussion:
"I don't think it's surprising that, at least in primary and secondary schools, the Schoolmen are "forgotten." They have two things going against them: 1.) They were writing within a fairly narrow King of Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11793825722325763371noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5721332142067598749.post-21896820519867452492010-06-15T11:29:00.000-07:002010-06-15T11:29:51.611-07:00More "Extremes" from the Harvard Narrative?In his last post Jon Rowe cited Paul Sigmund, of Princeton, reviewing John Marshall, of Johns Hopkins on John Locke. That piece contained this statement:
"Locke believed that Christ died not to atone for Adam's sin, but to show us the way to eternal life."
In the comments section I proposed changing that to the following:
"Locke believed that Christ died not to atone for Adam's sin, but for King of Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11793825722325763371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5721332142067598749.post-92011705564991650932010-06-01T19:45:00.000-07:002010-06-01T19:45:50.910-07:00Does it Really Matter if Washington Took Communion or Not?The following was left by D.G. in the comments section of one of Jon Rowe's previous posts on Lilliback and "Sacred Fire" that seems to echo the question that Brad Hart recently asked in his post about Gordon Wood:
"Not to take issue with my friends, Mark David Hall or David Hall (should they form band, Hall & Hall?), I'm not sure what the point of this work of historical excavation. So, King of Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11793825722325763371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5721332142067598749.post-63757888786205334782010-05-26T20:09:00.000-07:002010-05-26T20:10:38.079-07:00The Profound Ignorance in Respect to Our Founding ContinuesI am involved in an interesting debate at Dispatches about inalienable rights. It started with this statement by Ed Brayton:
"Then by all means, please name one thing in the Bill of Rights that has an analog in the Bible. Just one. Good luck."Here is the relevant part of my response:
"The biblical concept of imago dei and man being the workmanship of God was the foundation for Western thought King of Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11793825722325763371noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5721332142067598749.post-18276527284834084502010-05-24T20:33:00.000-07:002010-05-24T20:41:26.418-07:00Keeping it Real, the Teeter-Totter, and Rand's Larger PointHere is a link to a Rand Paul interview with a home state network. I think he explains himself rather well. Most of all I agree whole heartedly that we want and need more authentic and "flawed" people that have the guts to do a live interview on a hostile network leading our nation. I for one have had enough of the actor-like career politicians, their contrived sound bites and handlers. It King of Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11793825722325763371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5721332142067598749.post-74970960210671465082010-05-18T11:19:00.000-07:002010-05-18T11:21:42.044-07:00"Rational Christianity": A Contribution of Medieval Political ThoughtIn his last post Brad Hart quoted Montesquieu as saying:
"When the Christian religion, two centuries ago, became unhappily divided into Catholic and Protestant, the people of the north embraced the Protestant, and those of the south adhered still to the Catholic. The reason is plain: the people of the north have, and will for ever have, a spirit of liberty and independence, which the people of King of Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11793825722325763371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5721332142067598749.post-67976098165221318382010-05-16T22:34:00.000-07:002010-05-16T22:34:32.925-07:00The Tenth Amendment, Interposition, and Western CivilizationThis post from the Tenth Amendment Center outlines many of the general arguments for "states rights" or I as like to call it federalism. That is the ability of the states under the 10th amendment to check the power of the other branches of government. This is the tact that many states are using to fight Obamacare. Most of the arguments used in this line of reasoning are often King of Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11793825722325763371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5721332142067598749.post-23558075148114936652010-05-16T21:17:00.000-07:002010-05-16T21:17:52.121-07:00A Good Article About Calvinist Resistance TheoryCheck out this good article I found on Calvinist Resistance Theory from the Acton Institute. It cites many of the leading works, gives the highlights, and seeks to chronicle the progression of thought. This is a good preparation for what will probably be a long discussion at my group blog American Creation on resistance theory/interpostion. My first post on this was about 5 months ago and it has King of Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11793825722325763371noreply@blogger.com0