Summary of Richard M. Weaver's Ideas Have Consequences

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 Culture is a matter of yea-saying. It begins with wonder, and is sanctioned by an intuitive feeling about the immanent nature of reality. Without the metaphysical dream, it is impossible to think of men living together harmoniously over an extent of time.
#2 The most important goal for one to reach is the imaginative picture of what is otherwise a brute empirical fact, the donnée of the world. The rational faculty will be in service of a vision that can preserve his sentiment from sentimentality. There is no significance to the sound and fury of life unless something is being affirmed.
#3 The dream is dependent on logic, and not the other way around. We must admit this when we realize that logical processes ultimately rest on classification, which is by identification. And identification is intuitive. Without the transcendental truth of mythology and metaphysics, it is impossible to refine our experience.
#4 The man of self-control is the one who can consistently perform the act of abstraction. He is trained to see things under the aspect of eternity because form is the enduring part. The man of culture has a deep respect for forms, and he approaches even those he does not understand with awareness that a deep thought lies behind them.

Sujets

• History
• Theory
• Histoire
• Political Science

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 01 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669398103
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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#1

Culture is a matter of yea-saying. It begins with wonder, and is sanctioned by an intuitive feeling about the immanent nature of reality. Without the metaphysical dream, it is impossible to think of men living together harmoniously over an extent of time.

#2

The most important goal for one to reach is the imaginative picture of what is otherwise a brute empirical fact, the donnée of the world. The rational faculty will be in service of a vision that can preserve his sentiment from sentimentality. There is no significance to the sound and fury of life unless something is being affirmed.

#3

The dream is dependent on logic, and not the other way around. We must admit this when we realize that logical processes ultimately rest on classification, which is by identification. And identification is intuitive. Without the transcendental truth of mythology and metaphysics, it is impossible to refine our experience.

#4

The man of self-control is the one who can consistently perform the act of abstraction. He is trained to see things under the aspect of eternity because form is the enduring part. The man of culture has a deep respect for forms, and he approaches even those he does not understand with awareness that a deep thought lies behind them.

#5

The American frontiersman was a type who emancipated himself from culture by abandoning the settled institutions of the seaboard and the European motherland. He was seeking a solvent of forms, and he found his spokesmen in writers such as Mark Twain, who satirized the more formal European way of doing things.

#6

The modern mind is unable to recognize obscenity. This is not because of the decay of puritanism, but because the modern mind cannot recognize anything that does not relate to gross animal functions.

#7

The rise of sensational journalism everywhere demonstrates the loss of points of reference and the determination to enjoy the forbidden in the name of freedom. The area of privacy has been abandoned because the definition of person has been lost.

#8

The press is responsible for the raw material of life being presented in a manner that is suitable for the demos, who are careless of understanding but avid of thrills. As man becomes more immersed in time and material gratifications, his belief in the continuum of race fades and not all the tinkering of sociologists can put homes together again.

#9

When the primordial sentiments of a people weaken, there typically follows a decline of belief in the hero.