Authority, Liberty and Function in the Light of the War


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"The contents of this book have appeared between March 1915 and June 1916 in the New age."--Pref. Also published in Spanish with title: La crisis del Lumanismo.







Authority, Liberty and Function in the Light of the War


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Authority, Liberty and Function in the Light of the War


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Authority, Liberty and Function in the Light of the War


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Excerpt from Authority, Liberty and Function in the Light of the War: A Critique of Authority and Liberty as the Foundations of the Modern State and an Attempt to Base Societies on the Principle of Function The contents of this book have appeared between March 1915 and June 1916 in'the New Age. But the volume is not merely a collection of articles, for most of them were Written with a View to the place they would occupy in the completed work, and every chapter has been revised. I owe to the: newi Age and its editor, Mr. A. R. Orage, the idea of the Guilds; to M. Leon Duguit that of objective rights; to Mr. G. E. Moore that of objective good; to Herr Edmond Husserl that Of Objective logic; and to Mr. T. E. Hulme the acknow1eclg=ment of the political and social trans 'cendencyyof the doctrine of original sm. I wish to express my thanks to all, and also 'to Mr. J. M. Kennedy, who has shared with me the labour of giving my thoughts this English setting, and to fmessr's. A. R. Orage and Rowland Kenney for M, their numerous corrections. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.







Authority, Liberty and Function


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"You do not know why you kill me, but I know why I die: That your children may be better men than you." These are the last words of Spanish political theorist Ramiro de Maeztu (1875-1936), spoken just before his murder during the Spanish Civil War. Having become disillusioned early in life with modern Enlightenment philosophy, he eventually rejected liberal political principles altogether ("Liberty, Equality, Fraternity") as an insufficient basis for civilization. He saw what he called "the crisis of humanism," and he sought to answer this crisis by once again acknowledging man as a spiritual being: "It has been said that the central ideas of the Middle Ages consisted in looking upon the world as a vale of tears, and upon man as 'I, a sinner.' That is why the Middle Ages have been accused of darkening the world and diminishing man...But that the world is a vale of tears, and that man is 'I, a sinner, ' are not judgments characteristic of a given period of humanity. They must have been thought by men of all ages in consequence of that which really distinguishes man from all other beings on earth: the ideal of perfection in his soul." (Excerpt, Chapter 1)