Reactionary Diary – Myśl Konserwatywna https://myslkonserwatywna.pl Tradycja ma przyszłość Sun, 08 Jun 2014 16:12:52 +0000 pl-PL hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://myslkonserwatywna.pl/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cropped-cross-1-150x150.png Reactionary Diary – Myśl Konserwatywna https://myslkonserwatywna.pl 32 32 69120707 Gerard Manley Hopkins https://myslkonserwatywna.pl/gerard-manley-hopkins-2/ https://myslkonserwatywna.pl/gerard-manley-hopkins-2/#respond Sat, 08 Jun 2013 16:11:13 +0000 http://46.101.235.190/?p=7108 Hopkins125 years ago, on June 8th 1889, Gerard Manley Hopkins died in Dublin at the age of 44, the most prominent English Catholic poet and the father of modern English poetry; raised in a wealthy Anglican clerk family, during his university studies (classical) a participant of the Oxford Movement, under the influence of Bl. JH Newman he converted (1866) to Catholicism and joined the Jesuit Order; ordained to the priesthood in 1877, then worked as a preacher in England and Scotland; between 1882 and 1884 he taught Greek and Latin at Blackburn, then classical philology in Dublin; he found the metaphysical source of his poetic world in philosophy (and ascetic religiosity) of the Subtle Doctor – Bl. John Duns Scotus, and especially in its haecceitas category (the uniqueness of a unit of people and things, their "inner form " rendering that an object is just what it is, and not something else); his most famous series are the so- called dark sonnets; he died of typhoid fever, reportedly uttering the words "I'm so happy".

 

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Gerard Manley Hopkins https://myslkonserwatywna.pl/gerard-manley-hopkins-2-2/ https://myslkonserwatywna.pl/gerard-manley-hopkins-2-2/#respond Sat, 08 Jun 2013 16:11:13 +0000 http://46.101.235.190/?p=7108 Hopkins125 years ago, on June 8th 1889, Gerard Manley Hopkins died in Dublin at the age of 44, the most prominent English Catholic poet and the father of modern English poetry; raised in a wealthy Anglican clerk family, during his university studies (classical) a participant of the Oxford Movement, under the influence of Bl. JH Newman he converted (1866) to Catholicism and joined the Jesuit Order; ordained to the priesthood in 1877, then worked as a preacher in England and Scotland; between 1882 and 1884 he taught Greek and Latin at Blackburn, then classical philology in Dublin; he found the metaphysical source of his poetic world in philosophy (and ascetic religiosity) of the Subtle Doctor – Bl. John Duns Scotus, and especially in its haecceitas category (the uniqueness of a unit of people and things, their "inner form " rendering that an object is just what it is, and not something else); his most famous series are the so- called dark sonnets; he died of typhoid fever, reportedly uttering the words "I'm so happy".

 

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Ronald Reagan https://myslkonserwatywna.pl/ronald-reagan-2/ https://myslkonserwatywna.pl/ronald-reagan-2/#respond Wed, 05 Jun 2013 16:08:31 +0000 http://46.101.235.190/?p=7106 regan10 years ago, on June 5th 2004 at the age of 93, Ronald Wilson Reagan died in Bel Air (Los Angeles, CA), a conservative politician; for many years an actor; initially politically close to the Democrats in the 50’s joined the Republican Party, becoming one of the pillars of the anti-communist movement; during the 1967-1975 period a two-time governor of the state of California; lost the presidential primaries in 1968 and 1976, but in 1980, he won (even more convincingly in 1984), becoming the 40th (a two term) President of the United States from 1981 to 1989; his internal politics pursued a policy of fighting crime and defending the moral values ​​and in the economy – championing tax cuts (but without cuts to spending, which increased public debt), de-monopolisation and support for business (Reaganomics), which in total has increased the pace of economic development of the country to levels unseen before in its history, in foreign policy – skilfully combining elements of moral rhetoric ("evil empire") with realism – leading to the collapse of the communist Soviet empire; awarded (posthumously) the Order of the White Eagle.

 

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Marco Pallis https://myslkonserwatywna.pl/marco-pallis-2/ https://myslkonserwatywna.pl/marco-pallis-2/#respond Wed, 05 Jun 2013 16:03:11 +0000 http://46.101.235.190/?p=7103 Pallis25 years ago on June 5th 1989, Marco Alexander Pallis died in Liverpool at the age of 93, an explorer, a mountaineer, scholar of religious traditions, a translator, an essayist, and a composer; raised by Orthodox parents (wealthy Greek emigrants to Great Britain), whilst studying (entomology) he leaned towards Roman Catholicism, but eventually became a representative of the "traditionalist school" (perennialist) and a regular contributor to the Studies in Comparative Religion, accepting the thesis of F. Schuon of "transcendent unity of religions"; as a long-time explorer of Tibet he became an expert in Tibetan Buddhism; after the annexation of Tibet by the Communist he has also been championing the independence of the country in the international arena.

 

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Ruhollah Khomeini https://myslkonserwatywna.pl/ruhollah-khomeini/ https://myslkonserwatywna.pl/ruhollah-khomeini/#respond Mon, 03 Jun 2013 15:58:38 +0000 http://46.101.235.190/?p=7099 Chomeini25 years ago on June 3rd 1989 at the age of 86 Ruhollah Musawi Khomeini [ pers. آیتالله روحالله خمینی ] died in Tehran, a Shi'ite imam, an Ayatollah [ آيتالله – an expert on theology and the viceroy of the twelfth Imam ]; a representative of the mystical and gnostic type of Shi'ism; a long-time dissident opposing the pro-American, secularist and despotic regime of the Shah’s of the Pahlavi dynasty (for this reason, since 1964 in emigration) from the religiously – conservative and democratic position at the same time; the spiritual leader of the traditionalist Islamic Revolution (1977 to 1979), and after its victory – Iran's supreme leader from December 3rd 1979 until his death; he established a system of religious democracy (theocratic), referring to the ideas of classical political philosophy, both the Arabic (Al- Farabi ) and Greek (Plato – in particular the theocratic "second country“ of Laws, with its "anchor", or Nocturnal Council as a prototype of the Guardian Council of the Constitution).

 

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Stepan Szewyriow https://myslkonserwatywna.pl/stepan-szewyriow/ https://myslkonserwatywna.pl/stepan-szewyriow/#respond Mon, 20 May 2013 15:56:16 +0000 http://46.101.235.190/?p=7097 Szewyriow150 years ago on May 20th 1864, Stepan Petrovich Szewyriow (Russian: Степан Петрович Шевырёв) died in Paris at the age of 57, a literary critic, a poet, translator,historian,writer and a journalist; in 1841-1856 period an editor (with M. Pogodin )of the biweekly Moskvitianin , since 1847 a member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences; a representative of the romantic-conservative Slavophilism, but in contrast to its mainstream also an ideologist of the “official patriotism" or "trinomial" – autocracy, Orthodoxy and folklore; popularised the term "rotting West" – as a result of the deadly disease, which symptoms were reformation and revolution; sympathetic to the Poles (friend of A. Mickiewicz and translator of Polish romantic literature).

 

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Nathaniel Hawthorne https://myslkonserwatywna.pl/nathaniel-hawthorne-2/ https://myslkonserwatywna.pl/nathaniel-hawthorne-2/#respond Sun, 19 May 2013 15:53:20 +0000 http://46.101.235.190/?p=7094 Hawthorne150 years ago, May 19th 1864, at the age of 59 Nathaniel Hawthorne died in Plymouth (New Hampshire), a novelist and a columnist; for some time (from 1841) he lived with his wife in Brook Farm – a commune of Fourier transcendentalists; the 1853-1860 period he spent in Europe, first as an American consul in Liverpool, and then as a private person in Rome and Florence; a representative of Dark Romanticism, science fiction , horror and "gothic novel", but also a master of psychological analysis; his work focuses on the problem of original sin, guilt and redemption; classified (by R. Kirk ) in the New England’s tradition of "puritanical conservatism”, but with ambivalent attitude towards Puritan morality and a desire to expiate the excesses of the Puritan "theocracy", such as Salem “witch” trails.

 

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Dmitry Donskoy https://myslkonserwatywna.pl/dmitry-donskoy/ https://myslkonserwatywna.pl/dmitry-donskoy/#respond Sun, 19 May 2013 15:50:55 +0000 http://46.101.235.190/?p=7091 Dymitr Doński625 years ago on May 19th 1389, at the age of 48 prince Dmitry Donskoy (Russian: Дмитрий Донской) of the Rurik dynasty died in Moscow at the age of 48 , prince Dmitry Donskoy (Russian: Дмитрий Донской ) of the Rurik dynasty, from 1359 the Grand Duke of Moscow and since 1362 the Grand Duke of Vladimir; the first Ruthenian ruler since the Mongolian invasion who began to mint his own coin with his image and name; although he never managed to throw off the formal dependence (jarlig) from the Golden Horde, he has repeatedly ceased to pay tribute, and effectively countered the enthronements of other Ruthenian rulers of Tartar origin, and in 1380 dealt a heavy defeat in the Battle of Kulikovo on the Don river (to which he owes his nickname) to Khan Mamai, an event considered to be the beginning of the twilight of the power of the Golden Horde; in 1373 he also fended off, at the Battle of Lyubutsk, an (third) invasion of Lithuanian Grand Duke Algirdas. Canonised by the Moscow Orthodox Church; in 2002 President Putin has set to his (and Sergius of Radonezh) honour the Order of Service to the Fatherland.

 

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Nicolás Gómez Dávila https://myslkonserwatywna.pl/nicolas-gomez-davila-3/ https://myslkonserwatywna.pl/nicolas-gomez-davila-3/#respond Fri, 17 May 2013 15:46:55 +0000 http://46.101.235.190/?p=7085 davila20 years ago on May 17th 1994, on the eve of the 81st anniversary of his birth Nicolás Gómez Dávila died in Bogota, a scholiast and an essayist, a traditionalist fideistic Catholic, a representative of the "Romanesque" style in Catholicism, an implacable enemy of the antropotheistic heresy of democracy, an "authentic reactionary".

 

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Jean -Claude Valla https://myslkonserwatywna.pl/jean-claude-valla-2/ https://myslkonserwatywna.pl/jean-claude-valla-2/#respond Thu, 16 May 2013 15:44:25 +0000 http://46.101.235.190/?p=7082 Valla JC70 years ago, May 16th 1944, Jean -Claude Valla was born in Roanne near Saint- Étienne, a journalist, publicist and a historian; in his youth a member of the Nationalist Federation of Students (FEN) and a collaborator of Europe – Action, then one of the main animators of the New Right (Nouvelle droite), as a co-founder (1968) of GRECE ( Groupement de recherche et d'études pour la civilization européenne ) and its Secretary-General in the years 1973-1978 , a Director of the Copernic (1976-1978) publishings, an editor-in- chief of the Elements (1973-1978 ) quarterly and the first editor of the Figaro Magazine (1978-1980); an associate of Valeurs actuelles (1970-1973), Hebdo Magazine (1983-1985) and the monthly Marianne (1985-1986); after his departure from GRECE (1986) an editor of the Minute (1993-1990) weekly and (since 2002) an associate of Dominique Venner’s La Nouvelle reve d' histoire. An author of biographies of national revolutionaries (Ledesma Ramos,Valois,Doriot) as well as works on the collaboration of the socialists and the Jews with the Nazis.He died of cancer in 2010.

 

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