tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7624758989511404685.post2002440057561852344..comments2023-10-20T03:59:46.212-07:00Comments on Rugwig: Thomas McPartland on Modernity and Classicist CultureFrankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09096337840671446735noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7624758989511404685.post-10383116286319424492016-04-24T00:17:24.500-07:002016-04-24T00:17:24.500-07:00When I read intellectual histories like this there...When I read intellectual histories like this there's always an element of profound insight and scholarship, but I can't help thinking that it ultimately falls into an Hegelian interpretation of history, where the essence of History is seen to be the conflict and evolution of Ideas or Ideologies. <br /><br />I think this is a natural illusion for intellectuals to have: politicians believe the world is run by politics, merchants believe the world is run by money, soldiers believe the world is run by arms - intellectuals believe the world is run by ideas. You can see this in Plato, the first really great Western intellectual, who views the Ideas as the power that rules a society.<br /><br />Hegelian Historicists are muddled in their first principles. <br />History isn't caused by ideas, it is caused by God. It is not the corruption of ideas that has caused men to turn away from God, but the turning away from God that has caused the corruption of ideas. Our salvation is not from the intellectuals enlightening us with their ideas, as Plato would have it; our salvation is from God.Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13858873453982708283noreply@blogger.com