Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner and the Faith that Comes by Hearing
Pedro Blas González “I readily believe that there are more invisible Natures in the universe than visible ones. Yetwho shall explain to us this numerous company, their grades, their relationships, their distinguishing features, and the functions of each of them?”...Time and Permanence in T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets
Pedro Blas González In my beginning is my end…. … to be restored, our sickness must grow worse. —T. S. Eliot, Four QuartetsT. S. Eliot begins Burnt Norton with a reflection of time as cyclical. Because time-past and present are enveloped by time-future, Eliot...The Future of the West in the Thought of Muggeridge and Ortega y Gasset
Pedro Blas González Malcolm Muggeridge (1903–1990) and José Ortega y Gasset (1883–1955) alert us to the cultural, moral, and social-political implications that the disregard for objective values has for the future of the West. Muggeridge’s main concern is what he...Happiness or Joy?
Pedro Blas González If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the Saints and God. —Yes; but is it not to be happy to have a faculty of being amused by diversion? —No; for that comes from elsewhere and from without, and thus is...
Still, we have not yet checked the boxes that Tacitus identified in our Republican and Imperial predecessors.
It may be tottering in the hands of a succession of immoral geriatrics, we might be horrified at the incompetents we keep choosing to vote for, and we might be increasingly ignorant that how something is done is as important for republican freedom as what is done.