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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

2007-06-28T21:22:09Z

DavidL:

'''Dietrich Bonhoeffer''' (1906-1945) was a modern [[Christian]] [[martyr]] who voluntarily returned to [[Germany]] to speak out against [[Hitler]] and accept almost certain death for doing so. He was executed shortly before the [[Allies]] defeated Germany near the end of [[World War II]].

A website dedicated to his memory describes his sacrifice:<ref>http://www.dbonhoeffer.org/node/3</ref>

The integrity of his Christian faith and life, and the international appeal of his writings, have led to a broad consensus that he is the one theologian of his time to lead future generations of Christians into the new millennium.

Bonhoeffer was a member of a group of an organization that helped [[Jews]] escape to [[Switzerland]]. He also took part in a conspiracy to kill [[Adolf Hitler]]. Hitler personally ordered his execution.

He was hanged in the concentration camp at [[Flossenbürg]] on [[April]] 9, 1945, just three weeks before the city was liberated . His brother and two of his brothers in law also died at the hands of the [[Nazi]] regime for their participation in the small Protestant resistance movement. The letters he wrote during these final two years of his life were posthumously published by his student and friend, Eberhard Bethge, as Letters and Papers from Prison. His correspondence with his fiance, Maria von Wedermeyer, has been published as Love Letters from Cell 92.

An SS prison doctor who was at the execution described Bonhoeffer as "kneeling on the floor praying fervently to his God", and he went on to say "at the place of execution, he again said a short prayer... In almost 50 years that I worked as a doctor, I have hardly ever seen a man die so entirely submissive to the will of God."<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4906502.stm</ref>

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'''Sources:''' <references/>

'''External link:'''
# [http://www.plough.com/ebooks/thirdtestament.html A Third Testament: Free e-book about Christian saints, including Augustine, Kierkegaard, and Bonhoeffer]

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Leo Strauss

2007-06-28T21:05:46Z

DavidL: strauss and heidegger

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'''Leo Strauss''' is a German-born philosopher. Raised as an [[Orthodox Jew]], but became an [[atheist]] later in life. He fled to the [[United States]] when the [[Nazi]] party came into power, and became a Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. He specialized in the study of classical political philosophy, such as the philosophy of [[Plato]], [[Aristotle]], [[Niccolò Machiavelli]], [[Thomas Hobbes]], [[Benedict de Spinoza]], [[Søren Kierkegaard]], [[Friedrich Nietzsche]], and [[Martin Heidegger]].

Some of Leo Strauss' students include Supreme Court Justice [[Clarence Thomas]], Supreme Court nominee [[Robert Bork]], former Deputy Secretary of Defense [[Paul Wolfowitz]], former Assistant Secretary of State [[Alan Keyes]], former Secretary of Education [[William Bennett]], Weekly Standard editor [[William Kristol]], political philosopher [[Allan Bloom]], former New York Post editorials editor [[John Podhoretz]], former National Endowment for the Humanities Deputy Chairman [[John T. Agresto]]; speech-writer for [[Barry Goldwater]], Harry V. Jaff; former [[FrontPage Magazine]] editor, Robert Locke; and [[Nobel Prize]] winning novelist [[Saul Bellow]].

Followers of Leo Strauss usually call themselves Straussians, and it is said that they network in academia and in Washington and find one another jobs.

Leo Strauss was a vigorous anti-globalist, writing in his book ''Natural Right and History'', that "no human being and no group of human beings can rule the whole of the human race justly."

Some of Leo Strauss' main ideas were later popularized in Allan Bloom's influential book ''[[The Closing Of The American Mind]]''.

Strauss contended that Heidegger, building on the thoughts of Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, was "the thinker of our age". "The great achievement of Heidegger was the coherent exposition of the experience of ''Existenz''... Kierkegaard had spoken of existence but within the traditional horizon... Heidegger tried to understand existence out of itself."<ref>Strauss, Leo. Rebirth of Classical Political Rationalism.</ref>

===Books===
*''Spinoza’s Critique of Religion'' (1965)
*''Philosophy and Law'' (1995)
*''The Political Philosophy of Hobbes: Its Basis and Its Genesis'' (1936)
*''The Spirit of Sparta or the Taste of Xenophon'' (1939)
*''On a New Interpretation of Plato’s Political Philosophy'' (1946)
*''On Tyranny: An Interpretation of Xenophon's Hiero'' (1948)
*''Persecution and the Art of Writing'' (1952)
*''Natural Right and History'' (1953)
*''Thoughts on Machiavelli'' (1958)
*''What is Political Philosophy?'' (1959)
*''The City and Man'' (1964)
*''Socrates and Aristophanes'' (1966)
*''Liberalism Ancient and Modern'' (1968)
*''Xenophon's Socratic Discourse: An Interpretation of the "Oeconomicus"'' (1970)
*''Xenophon's Socrates'' (1972)
*''The Argument and the Action of Plato's LAWS'' (1975)
*''Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy'' (1983)
*''The Rebirth of Classical Political Rationalism: An Introduction to the Thought of Leo Strauss—Essays and Lectures by Leo Strauss'' (1989)
*''On Plato's Symposium'', (2001)
*''Faith and Political Philosophy: the Correspondence Between Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin, 1934-1964'' (1993)
*''Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity: Essays and Lectures in Modern Jewish Thought'' (1997)

==References==
*[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=1233 Leo Strauss, Conservative Mastermind] by Robert Locke.

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Leo Strauss

2007-06-28T19:48:06Z

DavidL:

[[Image:Alte190.jpg|right|thumb]]
'''Leo Strauss''' is a German-born philosopher. Raised as an [[Orthodox Jew]], but became an [[atheist]] later in life. He fled to the [[United States]] when the [[Nazi]] party came into power, and became a Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. He specialized in the study of classical political philosophy, such as the philosophy of [[Plato]], [[Aristotle]], [[Niccolò Machiavelli]], [[Thomas Hobbes]], [[Benedict de Spinoza]], [[Søren Kierkegaard]], and [[Friedrich Nietzsche]].

Some of Leo Strauss' students include Supreme Court Justice [[Clarence Thomas]], Supreme Court nominee [[Robert Bork]], former Deputy Secretary of Defense [[Paul Wolfowitz]], former Assistant Secretary of State [[Alan Keyes]], former Secretary of Education [[William Bennett]], Weekly Standard editor [[William Kristol]], political philosopher [[Allan Bloom]], former New York Post editorials editor [[John Podhoretz]], former National Endowment for the Humanities Deputy Chairman [[John T. Agresto]]; speech-writer for [[Barry Goldwater]], Harry V. Jaff; former [[FrontPage Magazine]] editor, Robert Locke; and [[Nobel Prize]] winning novelist [[Saul Bellow]].

Followers of Leo Strauss usually call themselves Straussians, and it is said that they network in academia and in Washington and find one another jobs.

Leo Strauss was a vigorous anti-globalist, writing in his book ''Natural Right and History'', that "no human being and no group of human beings can rule the whole of the human race justly."

Some of Leo Strauss' main ideas were later popularized in Allan Bloom's influential book ''[[The Closing Of The American Mind]]''.

===Books===
*''Spinoza’s Critique of Religion'' (1965)
*''Philosophy and Law'' (1995)
*''The Political Philosophy of Hobbes: Its Basis and Its Genesis'' (1936)
*''The Spirit of Sparta or the Taste of Xenophon'' (1939)
*''On a New Interpretation of Plato’s Political Philosophy'' (1946)
*''On Tyranny: An Interpretation of Xenophon's Hiero'' (1948)
*''Persecution and the Art of Writing'' (1952)
*''Natural Right and History'' (1953)
*''Thoughts on Machiavelli'' (1958)
*''What is Political Philosophy?'' (1959)
*''The City and Man'' (1964)
*''Socrates and Aristophanes'' (1966)
*''Liberalism Ancient and Modern'' (1968)
*''Xenophon's Socratic Discourse: An Interpretation of the "Oeconomicus"'' (1970)
*''Xenophon's Socrates'' (1972)
*''The Argument and the Action of Plato's LAWS'' (1975)
*''Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy'' (1983)
*''The Rebirth of Classical Political Rationalism: An Introduction to the Thought of Leo Strauss—Essays and Lectures by Leo Strauss'' (1989)
*''On Plato's Symposium'', (2001)
*''Faith and Political Philosophy: the Correspondence Between Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin, 1934-1964'' (1993)
*''Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity: Essays and Lectures in Modern Jewish Thought'' (1997)

==References==
*[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=1233 Leo Strauss, Conservative Mastermind] by Robert Locke.

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Modern Era Terms K

2007-06-28T19:39:40Z

DavidL:

{{Modern Index}}

[[Franz Kafka|Kafka, Franz]]

[[Immanuel Kant|Kant, Immanuel]]

[[Søren Kierkegaard|Kierkegaard, Søren]]

[[kamikaze]]

[[Kellogg-Briand Pact]]

[[Mustafa Kemal|Kemal, Mustafa]]

[[Jomo Kenyatta|Kenyatta, Jomo]]

[[Alexander Kerensky|Kerensky, Alexander]]

[[Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini| Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah]]

[[Kitty Hawk]]

[[kibbutzim]]

[[F.W. de Klerk|Klerk, F.W. de]]

[[Helmut Kohl|Kohl, Helmut]]

[[Egon Krenz|Krenz, Egon]]

[[Kristallnacht]]

[[kulak]]

[[Alexandr Kwasniewski|Kwasniewski, Aleksandr]]

Søren Kierkegaard

2007-06-28T18:54:30Z

DavidL:

'''Søren Kierkegaard''' (1813-1855) was an influential [[Danish]] [[Christian]] philosopher whose work set the foundations for the existentialist movement of the [[20th century]]. Kierkegaard was supportive of the Christian religion, but rejected [[Christendom]], the applied Christianity of his day. Kierkegaard claimed that [[Christendom]] of 19th century Europe strayed from the values of [[Jesus]] and declared that "official Christianity is not the Christianity of the [[New Testament]]".<ref>Kierkegaard, "Attack Upon Christendom"</ref> He called for Christians to embrace a life-affirming view of the world, rather than a false Christianity that provided easy comforts and wretched contentment. Kierkegaard's thoughts were taken in liberal directions with [[Karl Barth]]'s [[neo-orthodoxy]] and [[Jean Paul Sartre]]'s [[existentialism]].

The ''knight of faith'' was a literary device used in Kierkegaard's pseudonymous writing, ''[[Fear and Trembling]]''. The knight of faith exemplified a person who would overcome doubt & despair and affirm his individuality & embrace life.

The statement ''Truth is Subjectivity'' first appeared in Kierkegaard's ''[[Concluding Unscientific Postscript]]''. This aphorism does not mean that there is no objective truths, a view commonly called [[subjectivism]], but rather that the individual appropriates objective truth subjectively, while not denying the existence of objective truths. For example, the objective question is, "Is Christianity true?", while the subjective question is "What is my relation to Christianity?". Both questions are important, but only the latter takes into account the existing individual.

[[Michael Pederson Kierkegaard]], Søren's father, was a devout [[Lutheran]] businessman.

In his book, ''Introduction to Christianity'', [[Pope Benedict XVI]] quotes Kierkegaard's parable of the clown that was not taken seriously while the world burned, and interprets the story as saying that theologians are the clowns are that are not taken seriously in today's world.

== References ==
* [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kierkegaard/ Entry on Kierkegaard from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
* [http://sorenkierkegaard.org D. Anthony Storm's Commentary on Kierkegaard]

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Søren Aaybe Kierkegaard

2007-06-28T18:46:01Z

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Danish Socrates

2007-06-28T18:45:11Z

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Kierkegaard

2007-06-28T18:44:26Z

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Soren Kierkegaard

2007-06-28T18:43:27Z

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Søren Kierkegaard

2007-06-28T18:36:36Z

DavidL: New page: '''Søren Kierkegaard''' (1813-1855) was an influential Danish Christian philosopher whose work set the foundations for the existentialist movement of the 20th century. Kierkeg...

'''Søren Kierkegaard''' (1813-1855) was an influential [[Danish]] [[Christian]] philosopher whose work set the foundations for the existentialist movement of the [[20th century]]. Kierkegaard was supportive of the Christian religion, but rejected [[Christendom]], the applied Christianity of his day. Kierkegaard claimed that [[Christendom]] of 19th century Europe strayed from the values of [[Jesus]] and declared that "official Christianity is not the Christianity of the [[New Testament]]".<ref>Kierkegaard, "Attack Upon Christendom"</ref> He called for Christians to embrace a life-affirming view of the world, rather than a false Christianity that provided easy comforts and wretched contentment. Kierkegaard's thoughts were taken in liberal directions with [[Karl Barth]]'s [[neo-orthodoxy]] and [[Jean-Paul Sartre]]'s [[existentialism]].

The ''knight of faith'' was a literary device used in Kierkegaard's pseudonymous writing, ''[[Fear and Trembling]]''. The knight of faith exemplified a person who would overcome doubt & despair and affirm his individuality & embrace life.

The statement ''Truth is Subjectivity'' first appeared in Kierkegaard's ''[[Concluding Unscientific Postscript]]''. This aphorism does not mean that there is no objective truths, a view commonly called [[subjectivism]], but rather that the individual appropriates objective truth subjectively, while not denying the existence of objective truths. For example, the objective question is, "Is Christianity true?", while the subjective question is "What is my relation to Christianity?". Both questions are important, but only the latter takes into account the existing individual.

[[Michael Pederson Kierkegaard]], Søren's father, was a devout [[Lutheran]] businessman.

In his book, ''Introduction to Christianity'', [[Pope Benedict XVI]] quotes Kierkegaard's parable of the clown that was not taken seriously while the world burned, and interprets the story as saying that theologians are the clowns are that are not taken seriously in today's world.

== References ==
* [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kierkegaard/ Entry on Kierkegaard from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
* [http://sorenkierkegaard.org D. Anthony Storm's Commentary on Kierkegaard]