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Two monumental works on the nature of the modern age by Romano
Guardini, one of the most important Catholic figures of the 20th
century. This expanded edition of The End of the Modern World: A
Search for Orientation includes its sequel, Power and
Responsibility: A Course of Action for the New Age. In both,
Guardini analyzes modern man's conception of himself in the world,
and examines the nature and use of power. It is the principle of
individual responsibility that weaves both works into a seamless,
comprehensive, and compelling moral statement. Guardini tirelessly
argues that human beings are responsible moral agents, possessed of
free will, and answerable to God and their fellow man. On The End
of the Modern World: "This book will cauterize the spirit of any
man who reads it; it will burn away that sentimentality with which
so many today view the advent of the new order, imagining – as
they do – that a fully technologized universe can retain every
significant cultural and traditional value sustained by the past."
– Frederick D. Wilhelmsen, founding editor of Triumph magazine
and professor at the University of Dallas On Power and
Responsibility: "If the characteristic of Hellenic civilization is
to be summed up in the word logos, the characteristic of our own is
more exactly summed up in the word power. The fact itself is a
challenge to the wisdom of man. One is grateful that Romano
Guardini has taken up the challenge... I highly recommend the book
to all who are wise enough to know today's need to wisdom. That is,
I recommend the book to every thoughtful mind." – John Courtney
Murray, S.J., architect of the Vatican II "Declaration on Religious
Liberty" and author of We Hold These Truths
For metaphysicians who have imbibed the sober and inebriating
teachings of Thomas Aquinas, existence is an act, the act which
makes all things actually to be. As the act of existence makes
things to be, essence makes them to be what they are. Essence and
the act of existence, in other words, are really distinct yet
together they compose each of the things that are. Such an
understanding involves a number of paradoxes, and Frederick D.
Wilhelmsen's articulation of them reveals his philosophical genius.
These paradoxes include the fact that the act of existence does not
exist, that it can be thought but not conceived by the mind, and
that truths about God can be known while He himself remains
absolutely unknown. Wilhelmsen argues the notion that the Christian
faith and philosophical reason harmonize while remaining completely
distinct from each other. Writing in a captivating style,
Wilhelmsen begins with a discussion of the development, strengths,
and limitations of the ancient Greek philosophical accounts of
being. Following that, he develops such key topics as the problem
of existence, St. Thomas Aquinas' understanding of being, critical
analyses of Hegel's and Heidegger's doctrines of being, existence
as "towards God," and a metaphysical approach to the human person.
The final two chapters develop the sense in which metaphysical
thinking is and is not shaped by historical and social factors.
Each chapter in Christianity and Political Philosophy addresses a
philosophical problem generated by history. Frederick D. Wilhelmsen
discusses the limits of natural law; Cicero and the politics of the
public orthodoxy; the problem of political power and the forces of
darkness; Sir John Fortescue and the English tradition; Donoso
Cortes and the meaning of political power; the natural law
tradition and the American political experience; Eric Voegelin and
the Christian tradition; and Jaffa, the School of Strauss, and the
Christian tradition. Wilhelmsen is convinced that mainstream
philosophy's suppression of the Christian experience, or its
reduction of Christianity to myths, deprives both Christianity and
philosophy. He argues that Christianity opened up an entirely new
range of philosophical questions and speculation that today are
part and parcel of the intellectual tradition of the West.
Wilhelmsen remains relevant because political philosophy in America
today is following the historic cycle of political philosophy's
importance: as things get worse for the nation because it is
internally riven by ideological and spiritual conflicts, there is a
greater need for the political philosopher to raise and explore
profound questions and reassert forgotten truths about man and
society, the soul and God, and good and evil, as well as the ground
of political order. This is the latest book in Transaction's
esteemed Library of Conservative Thought series.
Frederick D. Wilhelmsen's Being and Knowing, rooted in the
philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas, rests on two basic assertions:
first, metaphysics is the science of being in its first and
ultimate act, existence (the act by which all things manifest
themselves); second, that existence is known not through observing
objects, but in affirming through judgments that these objects are
subjects of existence. The chapters of this book explore these
Thomistic doctrines. Some explain St. Thomas Aquinas's philosophy
of being. Others probe his epistemology. The complexity and density
of Aquinas's theory of judgment (that truth is realized in the
judgment of man), emphasized throughout most of the book, point not
only to a deeper understanding of the nature of metaphysics, but
they open doors to the clarification of philosophical issues
germane to contemporary thought. This work addresses a number of
metaphysical philosophical paradoxes. Wilhelmsen's exploration of
them demonstrates why he was the preeminent American scholar of the
Thomistic tradition. This volume is part of Transaction's series,
the Library of Conservative Thought.
Frederick D. Wilhelmsen's Being and Knowing, rooted in the
philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas, rests on two basic assertions:
first, metaphysics is the science of being in its first and
ultimate act, existence (the act by which all things manifest
themselves); second, that existence is known not through observing
objects, but in affirming through judgments that these objects are
subjects of existence. The chapters of this book explore these
Thomistic doctrines. Some explain St. Thomas Aquinas's philosophy
of being. Others probe his epistemology. The complexity and density
of Aquinas's theory of judgment (that truth is realized in the
judgment of man), emphasized throughout most of the book, point not
only to a deeper understanding of the nature of metaphysics, but
they open doors to the clarification of philosophical issues
germane to contemporary thought. This work addresses a number of
metaphysical philosophical paradoxes. Wilhelmsen's exploration of
them demonstrates why he was the preeminent American scholar of the
Thomistic tradition. This volume is part of Transaction's series,
the Library of Conservative Thought.
Each chapter in Christianity and Political Philosophy addresses
a philosophical problem generated by history. Frederick D.
Wilhelmsen discusses the limits of natural law; Cicero and the
politics of the public orthodoxy; the problem of political power
and the forces of darkness; Sir John Fortescue and the English
tradition; Donoso Cortes and the meaning of political power; the
natural law tradition and the American political experience; Eric
Voegelin and the Christian tradition; and Jaffa, the School of
Strauss, and the Christian tradition.
Wilhelmsen is convinced that mainstream philosophy's suppression
of the Christian experience, or its reduction of Christianity to
myths, deprives both Christianity and philosophy. He argues that
Christianity opened up an entirely new range of philosophical
questions and speculation that today are part and parcel of the
intellectual tradition of the West.
Wilhelmsen remains relevant because political philosophy in
America today is following the historic cycle of political
philosophy's importance: as things get worse for the nation because
it is internally riven by ideological and spiritual conflicts,
there is a greater need for the political philosopher to raise and
explore profound questions and reassert forgotten truths about man
and society, the soul and God, and good and evil, as well as the
ground of political order. This is the latest book in Transaction's
esteemed Library of Conservative Thought series.
For metaphysicians who have imbibed the sober and inebriating
teachings of Thomas Aquinas, existence is an act, the act which
makes all things actually to be. As the act of existence makes
things to be, essence makes them to be what they are. Essence and
the act of existence, in other words, are really distinct yet
together they compose each of the things that are. Such an
understanding involves a number of paradoxes, and Frederick D.
Wilhelmsen's articulation of them reveals his philosophical genius.
These paradoxes include the fact that the act of existence does not
exist, that it can be thought but not conceived by the mind, and
that truths about God can be known while He himself remains
absolutely unknown. Wilhelmsen argues the notion that the Christian
faith and philosophical reason harmonize while remaining completely
distinct from each other. Writing in a captivating style,
Wilhelmsen begins with a discussion of the development, strengths,
and limitations of the ancient Greek philosophical accounts of
being. Following that, he develops such key topics as the problem
of existence, St. Thomas Aquinas' understanding of being, critical
analyses of Hegel's and Heidegger's doctrines of being, existence
as "towards God," and a metaphysical approach to the human person.
The final two chapters develop the sense in which metaphysical
thinking is and is not shaped by historical and social factors.
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