Ancient Greece and American Conservatism by Bloxham John

Author:Bloxham, John
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781786723949
Publisher: I.B. Tauris

was achieved by certain Greek peoples in the sixth and fifth centuries before Christ. This noble freedom decayed when the old Greek religion and morality gave way to sophistry [and even] the genius of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle did not suffice to restore the Greek freedom of spirit and law, once the belief in the divine ordering of things had dissolved.31

Apart from the simplification and distortion of Greek history here, what is interesting was the faint praise Kirk accorded Greek philosophy in comparison with Greek religion. Greek greatness was really a result of Greek religion. There was therefore no need to return to Greek philosophy (or, really, for universities at all). All that was needed was ‘a belief in the divine ordering of things’. The only other use for Antiquity was as a warning when we ‘look upon the ruins’ of Greece and Rome. ‘The material splendor of those societies was at its height not long before the collapse of faith and liberty’.32 The lessons for America were plain.

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