Russell Kirk and Ideology

By |2018-10-11T17:08:42-05:00April 10th, 2012|Categories: Christianity, Gerhart Niemeyer, Ideology, Philosophy, Russell Kirk|Tags: |

“Philosophy”—love of wisdom—is a word first used by Heraclitus. “Sophia” as listed in the dictionary means “perfect scientific knowledge, wisdom,” but a “sophist” is “a quibbler, a cheat.” And Plato made a sharp distinction between sophistes, philosophos, and the sophos, the sophistes being a person who, claiming that he possesses wisdom, takes money for teaching it. The philosophos, by contrast, knowing [...]

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