National Reformation Radio: Recent Episodes
National Reformation Party
Host: Joshua Noyer
Participants: Ryan Massey, Siri Khalsa, and Brett Bartlett.
Topics: A. Importance of the NRP
B. American policy towards Russia and the Ukraine
C. Canadian Trucker's Blockade
D. Legacy of Woodrow Wilson
Free me from my fellows, let me alone to work out the salvation of my own glorious self, and surely (so I may fancy) I shall now for the first time show who I am. No, not so; on the contrary I merely show in such a case who I am not. I am no longer friend, brother, companion, co-worker, servant, citizen, father, son; I exist for nobody; and erelong, perhaps to my surprise, generally to my horror, I discover that I am nobody.
Written by Josiah Royce
Narrated by Joshua Noyer
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Royce, Josiah. Essay. In The Spirit of Modern Philosophy, 207–8. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1892.
No one has thus far defined the “middle of the road.” We inscribe it on our banners and yet if you will ask a man for a definition no two will agree. As I understand “middle of the road,” it means that the old party methods of corruption, fraud and ballot-box stuffing, which have been resorted to in securing elections, must be abandoned and a course that is pure, that is lofty, patriotic and just shall be adopted. That is “the middle of the road,” as I understand it.
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William Allen Address at the Populist National Convention, July 22, 1896 William Jennings Bryan, Pp. 264-270 The First Battle: A Story of the Campaign of 1896, W. B. Conkey Company, 1896
"Idealism starts from the opposite principle, namely, that the good of the individual is identical with the good of the community. It is held to be man's nature that he cannot find permanent satisfaction except in identifying his personal good with the good of the community."
Written by John Watson
Narrated by Joshua Noyer
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Watson, John. In The State in Peace and War, 212–218. Glasgow: J. Maclehose, 1919
Rights are not creatures of the physical laws of the universe. Instead, we must recognize them for what they are- social constructs, socially negotiated. And, like most things in our society, the discussion around rights has become extremely imbalanced, shallow, and incurious.
Written and Narrated by Siri Khalsa
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The only individuality worth having is that full and rounded culture of body, mind, and soul, which brings out in each human being the utmost of which he is capable. Thus only, is he individualized; thus only, is he differentiated from his kind. Any system which does not cultivate such a manhood, or at least afford to every man the opportunity and incentive to do it for himself, has no right to invoke the sacred name of Individuality. Written by Charles Chadbourne Narrated by Joshua Noyer Read Along: https://www.nationalreformation.org/post/will-it-destroy-individuality
American history is full of its brutalities and negative aspects. However, if the contemporary world has taught us anything, it's that present day Americans believe in absolutely nothing.
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Items discussed: The Need for Universal unionization and the problem with inflation within the Covid pandemic. The importance of comprehensive systemic economic change and how it's related to Occupational Organicity. We also discuss the legacy of Theodore Roosevelt and how it ties into the issue of immigration.
Hosts: Ryan Massey and John Savage
Participants: Joshua Noyer and Siri Khalsa
A State run media may not be perfect, but the elimination of the profit motive will cause it to serve as a much better medium for information and upholder of a nation’s values.
Written and Narrated by Joshua Noyer
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"The ideological solution misses the one integral law of the Universe; all things tend towards Unity. Whether it be politics, economics, or science, the relations and principles which bind living things together bring the diversity of existence into a functioning system where everything has a place and a purpose."
Narrated and Written by Joshua Noyer
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Extension of state control is not so much a question of increasing or diminishing as of reorganizing restraints. There is no difficulty in understanding why the extension of state control on the one side should not go hand in hand with determined resistance to encroachments on the other. Practically what is called increase of state control is often of the nature of decrease in the total amount of restraint. The object of state coercion is to a large degree to override coercion by individuals and by associations of individuals within the state, and such a function, so far as I can see, is consistent only with the assumption of the competence of the state to decide between the conflicting interests.
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Written by Wilbur Urban
Narrated by Joshua Noyer
Urban, Wilbur. “The Nature of the Community.” The Philosophical Review 28, no. 6 (November 1919): 547–61.
"For a man's self has no contents, no plans, no purposes, except those which are, in one way or another, defined for him by his social relations."
Written by Josiah Royce
Narrated by Joshua Noyer
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93-95 Royce, Josiah. The Philosophy of Loyalty. New York, NY: The Macmillan Company, 1908.
Hosts: Eliot Girardi and John Savage
Participants: Joshua Noyer, Siri Khalsa, and Brandon Lenig
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"When we see community as a process, at that moment we recognize that freedom and law must appear together. I integrate opposing tendencies in my own nature and the result is freedom, power, law. To express the personality I am creating, to live the authority I am creating, is to be free. From biology, social psychology, all along the line, we learn one lesson: that man is rising into consciousness of self as freedom in the forms of law. Law is the entelechy of freedom. The forms of government, of industry, must express this psychological truth."
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Written by Mary Parker Follett
Narrated by Joshua Noyer
Follett, M. P. “Community Is a Process.” The Philosophical Review 28, no. 6 (1919): 576. https://doi.org/10.2307/2178307
It can easily be demonstrated that the failures which are said to accompany married life are the results of the present social order that lays upon the shoulders of the individual, the burden which society itself ought to carry and could easily carry; that does not recognize the right of man to the means wherewith to sustain life, even if he is willing to contribute his share of work to their production; that spans the masses before the coach of society upon which Hunger sits as the coachman and cracks his deep cutting whip; and that allows only a select few to enjoy an airy seat upon the chariot, holding out over them, even, the dread that they may lose their seats and tumble down from their height to be crushed by the wheels of the vehicle.
Written by Solomon Schindler
Narrated by Joshua Noyer
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Schindler, Solomon. “Is Marriage a Failure.” The Nationalist Volume 1 (1889): 47–51. https://archive.org/details/TheNationalist-Volume1-1889/page/n57/mode/2up
It must not be forgotten that this new social doctrine has come not to destroy but to fulfill whatever is true in the old individualistic conceptions. In other words, the modern point of view which is affecting so profoundly the relation of man to society may also be described as a more adequate realization of the nature of individuality. It shows how completely the concrete content of individuality is social.
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Written by James E. Creighton
Narrated by Joshua Noyer
Creighton, J. E. “The Social Nature of Thinking.” The Philosophical Review 27, no. 3 (1918): 274. https://doi.org/10.2307/2178799
The argument I put forward in this paper is that, despite the surface similarities and apparent continuity between contemporary forms of protest to their historical progenitors, there is a darker and more sinister nature to what we’ve seen over the last few years in comparison to the past.
Written and Narrated by Joshua Noyer
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"The essence of any community is a mutual recognition that as a collective we all share a common history, wants, and concerns; that you recognize in your neighbor a bond which transcends the visibly obvious, that he lives in close proximity to you."
Written and Narrated by Joshua Noyer
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"For our purposes, the community is a being that attempts to accomplish something in time and through the deeds of its members. These deeds belong to the life which each member regards as, in ideal, his own."
Written by Josiah Royce
Narrated by Joshua Noyer
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“Pp. 60-67.” The Problem of Christianity Lectures Delivered at the Lowell Institute in Boston, and at Manchester College, Oxford Vol II, by Josiah Royce, Macmillan, 1914.
"The rule that time is needed for the formation of a conscious community is a rule which finds its extremely familiar analogy within the life of every individual human self. Each one of us knows that he just now, at this instant, cannot find more than a mere fragment of himself present. The self comes down to us from its own past. It needs and is a history. Each of us can see that his own idea of himself as this person is inseparably bound up with his view of his own former life, of the plans that he formed, of the fortunes that fashioned him, and of the accomplishments which in turn he has fashioned for himself. A self is, by its very essence, a being with a past."
Written by Josiah Royce
Narrated by Joshua Noyer
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“Pp. 35-53.” The Problem of Christianity Lectures Delivered at the Lowell Institute in Boston, and at Manchester College, Oxford Vol II, by Josiah Royce, Macmillan, 1914.
"We are apt to speak and act as if freedom were a negative term, as if it meant freedom from, instead of freedom to. And so, there is a great deal of mutual complacency, of easy-going live and let live, and a spineless tolerance of wrong that does not directly and obviously touch us as individuals."
Written by Charles Bakewell
Narrated by Joshua Noyer
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Bakewell, Charles M. “Novum Itinerarium MENTIS in Deum.” The Philosophical Review 25, no. 3 (1916): 255
"The idea that master and man, the so-called employer and employee, are in opposition to each other must disappear. They must learn that they belong to each other, that they must collaborate harmoniously in human society for their mutual good and for the good of the community as a whole."
Written by Egelbert Dollfuss
Narrated by Joshua Noyer
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It is of great importance to recognise that the State cannot be identified with the Government, which is merely the organ through which the harmony of the various organisations included in the State is effected. “The State,” as Mr. Bosanquet says, “ includes the whole hierarchy of institutions by which life is determined, from the family to the trade, and from the trade to the Church and the University. It is the structure which gives life and meaning to the political whole.”
Watson, John. In The State in Peace and War, 202–12. Glasgow: J. Maclehose, 1919.
Written by John Watson
Narrated by Joshua Noyer
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"All this serves to show that in their hearts the people do not believe in democracy as it is understood today; they demand authority and leadership, and left to themselves they would not, if it were honest, think of questioning it. It is exploitation to which they object and rightly object, and they only challenge authority when it is too closely associated with exploitation. The people realize that under any system, democratic or otherwise, they must obey; and that democratic institutions do not mean government by the people any more than monarchy or aristocracy, but government by a caucus who exercise authority in the name of the people."
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Written by Arthur Penty
Narrated by Joshua Noyer
The American Review, December 1936, pp. 216-233
The State of the old order was a cold, far-off relic, to be admired from a distance but not known. Our conception of the State is one that includes everything and everybody under its jurisdiction, no longer isolated and alone but working together for a common purpose and goal.
Written and Narrated by Joshua Noyer
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"The family is the first ethical root of the state; the corporation is the second, and it is based in civil society. The former contains the moments of subjective particularity and objective universality in substantial unity; but in the latter, these moments, which in civil society are at first divided into the internally reflected particularity of need and satisfaction and abstract legal universality, are inwardly united in such a way that particular welfare is present as a right and is actualized within this union."
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Written by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Narrated by Joshua Noyer
Pp 152-154 Knox, T. M. (1975). Hegel's Philosophy of Right. London: Oxford University Press.
"Civil society is man's natural state, for every man is dependent on his fellow-men. All men are regulated by, and owe their freedom to one law, the great law — “Do unto others as you would have others do unto you." This law is, in fact, the vital force of the political organism, the State. The State thus becomes the giver of all our rights; our civilization; our exalted condition which men individually never would have been able to attain; and our ability to wage war with the inabilities of our "natural" condition, to subdue nature, to redress natural defects and inequalities."
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Wills, Frederick M. “The Sphere of the State.” The Nationalist II, no. 5 (April 1890): 155-162 https://archive.org/details/TheNationalist-Volume2-1890/page/n217/mode/2up.
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"Every student of these problems knows that likeness and difference are two aspects of the world that simply cannot be sundered even by the utmost efforts of abstraction. In a sense, any two objects that you recognize as real, or as possible, have points of resemblance. In a sense, also, any two objects, however nearly alike, have differences." Read Along: https://www.nationalreformation.org/post/likeness-and-difference Royce, Josiah. Essay. In The World and the Individual, 46–53. 2nd. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1913.
"If, instead of viewing the phenomena of tradition and innovation through the lenses of opposing sides, we view them as functional sides of a single whole, we can begin to see how integral and necessary they are to each other."
Written and Narrated by Joshua Noyer
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"Taking it, however, as if it were prima facie roughly true, that every different finite individual has a single and separate work or function in society, which corroborates, so to speak, the distinctness of his formal selfhood; we are still in presence of a thoroughgoing identity in diversity."
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Written by Bernard Bosanquet
Narrated by Joshua Noyer
Pp. 49-54 Bosanquet, Bernard. The Value and Destiny of the Individual. The Gifford Lectures for 1912, Etc. Pp. xxxii. 331. Macmillan & Co.: London, 1913.
"Thus, neither a nation nor a State can arise out of contract between individuals. A sum of individual wills does not produce a common will. The renunciation of any number of private rights does not produce any public right."
Written by J.K. Bluntschli
Narrated by Brandon Lenig
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"Without the environment, there can be no survival. We live a natural, as well as a humanly-created world. Ninety-seven percent of the world's scientists say that global warming is real. Resource depletion, overpopulation, and mounting complexity energy also threaten human existence and are major causes of wars. The National Reformation Party works to promote resource conservation, species preservation, recycling, and renewable energy. National parks, wild areas, reserves, and other lands must be preserved and expanded, coupled with education programs. Integrated with this should be re-forestation and other environmental renewal, regeneration of coral reefs and species, and carbon sequestering."
Participants: Joshua Noyer, Eliot Girardi, John Savage, Mark Dasacco, and Guhen.
"Thus the state, which in its historical reality is a fabric of law, is reduced to a business concern by an ‘economic interpretation of history’ which destroys the concreteness of legal fact and replaces it by the abstractions of utilitarian ethics; and we get socialism or the substitution of economics for justice, with its natural corollary, the destruction of that internal ‘king’s peace’ which the political spirit has guarded through centuries as the very flame of its domestic altar, and the declaration of a class war which is the explicit negation of the state."
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Written by Robin Collingwood
Narrated by Joshua Noyer
Pp 227-231 Collingwood, R. G. Speculum Mentis. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924.
It is again not in the interests of a community to sanction contracts for labour which is carried on under conditions which imperil the life and safety of those engaged in the labour, for that is subordinating the person to the contract instead of the contract to the person.
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Written by James Black Baillie
Narrated by Joshua Noyer
Baillie, J. B. “The Moral and Legal Aspects of Labour.” The Philosophical Review 20, no. 3 (1911): 249. https://doi.org/10.2307/2177849
It is by some such logic that I declare, without hesitation, for the sovereignty of the State, the spiritual State. For upon what is sovereignty based if not upon authority? And how, amidst the clash of the social forces, can authority survive, unless it be the final court of appeal in the sphere of reason?
Written by Samuel Hobson
Narrated by Joshua Noyer
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Hobson, S. (1920). What I Believe. In National Guilds and the State (pp. 348-359). London: G. Bell and Sons.
"In the liberty (originality) of poetic thought, the race disappears, and along with many other conditions it is transformed into truth. Everyone claims to have given convictions because they are just or true or well founded, not because, for instance, an ancestor of his was a Teuton or a Latin. The past is the wealth and more than the wealth of thought, but it would be useless to look to the past for the principle of universality."
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Written by Leone Vivante
Narrated by Joshua Noyer
“Pp 34-37.” Notes on the Originality of Thought: the Concept of Internal Necessity: Poetic Thought and Constructive Thought, by Leone Vivante, S.n.}, 1927.
With the acknowledgement that as human beings we have both material and spiritual needs. An economy is needed which would be tailored to fulfill those needs. Occupational Organicity; the idea that society is constructed along the lines of the human body, containing a plethora of individuals with different talents, skills, and occupations, all having separate tasks but working together for a common purpose and goal within the same State structure. This will address the material aspects of our existence through its shared decision making structure and management of competition; with the aim of avoiding the cutthroat nature of modern business along with the desire to maximize profits through the reduction of wages and benefits. While Capitalism commodifies the individual through reducing the worker to nothing more than a part within the production process. Occupational Organicity recognizes the skills possessed by each individual as being an inherently valuable part of society; guaranteeing through reliable employment the ability to improve upon that skill while securely supporting a family. Through the Guilds the individual becomes conscious of the link that exists the State, Nation, and Individual.
Participants: Joshua Noyer, Brandon Lenig, Eliot Girardi, Ian, John Maniglia, and John Savage.
We can imagine humanity without a number of important attributes; but humanity without government is simply unthinkable, for it would then be humanity without reason.
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Written by Heinrich Von Treitschke
Narrated by Joshua Noyer
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Treitschke, Heinrich von. “The State Idea.” In Politics, 4–5. New York, NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1963.
"Yet Realism, if indeed strictly sane, as sanity goes amongst us men, is a view as falsely abstract as it is convenient. This sundering of external and internal meaning is precisely what our later study will show to be impossible."
Written by Josiah Royce
Narrated by Joshua Noyer
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Royce, Josiah. In The World and the Individual. Gifford Lectures, 72–77. New York: Macmillan, 1900.
In short, we get back to the conditions which foredoomed democracy to failure in the ancient Greek and medieval republics, where party lines were horizontal and class warred against class, each in consequence necessarily substituting devotion to the interest of a class for devotion to the interest of the state and to the elementary ideas of morality.
Written by Theodore Roosevelt
Narrated by Joshua Noyer
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Published in the “CENTURY,” January, 1900
"Faith and logic become synonymous through their mutual dependence on each other, just as do the existence of love, anger, passion, and contentment. The ties that bind may at first glance appear to be the cause of division, but in the end, they are what make us."
Written and Narrated by Joshua Noyer
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"We make a great mistake in thinking of the force exercised by the State as limited to the restraint of disorderly persons by the police and the punishment of intentional lawbreakers. The State is the fly-wheel of our life."
Written by Bernard Bosanquet
Narrated by Joshua Noyer
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Pp 150-154 Bosanquet, B. (1899). The philosophical theory of the state. London: Macmillan.
"When we speak of the philosophy of a poet, we have in mind that attitude toward life as a whole which is the expression of his dominant, and more or less persistently dominant, mood. If he be a great poet, he is successful in presenting the things his genius touches upon in the light of the whole."
Written by Charles Bakewell
Narrated by Joshua Noyer
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Bakewell, Charles M. “The Philosophy of Emerson.” The Philosophical Review 12, no. 5 (1903): 525. https://doi.org/10.2307/2176675
"The State is the social structure of our philosophy. It is the highest expression of human socialization. Through the power of organization, it is the creator of peoples and nations. It is the unchained organism that seeks truth. Society as the State is an organism, each of its aspects as individuals articulating together to create a living whole. Without the State, the individual cannot survive, but without the individual, the State cannot survive. This unity of opposites is the lifeblood of our social existence. A government by itself is not the State but only an administrative aspect of the State."
Participants: Joshua Noyer, Eliot Girardi, John Savage, and Brandon Lenig
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"In spite of the paradox, the idea of a real community of will is deeply rooted in ordinary thought and language which confidently appeals to the mind of a nation, of a whole group of nations, or of a period against the limited minds of individuals, and seems to be supported in the appeal by familiar facts."
Written by James Wright Heatherington
Narrated by Joshua Noyer
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“Pp. 82-90.” Social Purpose: a Contribution to a Philosophy of Civic Society, by H. J. W. Hetherington and John H. Muirhead, Allen & Unwin, 1922.
"There is no State that does not concern itself in one way or another, positively or negatively, with religion, oscillating between theocracy and a State religion on the one hand, and complete separation of church and State in an agnostic pseudo-liberal democracy on the other."
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Pp. 149-152 Gentile, Giovanni. Genesis and Structure of Society. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1966.
"We claim to abhor political violence and the fragmented state of our country, and yet as individuals when we engage in political dialogue our rhetoric more often than not resembles verbal warfare, accusing the other side of destroying the country, of being traitors; what we’re basically doing, at least subconsciously, is establishing a bipolar reality composed of a good and a bad side, a very childlike mentality."
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Written by John Davis
Narrated by Joshua Noyer
Davis, John (1892). Pp 30-32. In The People's cause. Boston, MA: Arena Pub.
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Written and Narrated by Joshua Noyer
From the Article: American democracy, at its core, is about the value of an act in itself. Absent the State, the lack of restraint by a governing force is looked upon as a good in itself, hence the value put upon our supposed right to “freedom of speech”, regardless of the content or volume of the speech concerned.
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Written by Theodore Roosevelt
Narrated by Joshua Noyer
From the Article: The absence of effective State, and, especially, national, restraint upon unfair money-getting has tended to create a small class of enormously wealthy and economically powerful men, whose chief object is to hold and increase their power. The prime need is to change the conditions which enable these men to accumulate power which is not for the general welfare that they should hold or exercise.
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Written by Giovanni Gentile
Narrated by Joshua Noyer
From the Article: By idealism on the other hand we mean that higher point of view from which we discover the impossibility of conceiving a reality which is not the reality of thought itself. For it reality is not the idea as a mere object of the mind, which therefore can exist outside of the mind, and must exist there in order that the mind may eventually have the means of thinking it. Reality is this very thought itself by which we think all things, and which surely must be something if by means of it we want somehow to affirm any reality whatsoever
GENTILE, Giovanni. The Reform of Education , translated by Dino Bigongiari, 63–84. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1922.
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Written and Narrated by Joshua Noyer
From the Article: There is no decision made which is value free, whether it comes to tax rates, education, or even which medical procedures to allow or not allow. All choices reflect a worldview and system of values. The difference between ostensibly democratic and totalitarian governments is simply one of priorities.
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Written by F.H. Bradley
Narrated by Joshua Noyer
From the Article: In developing my property, etc., as this or that man, I am doing my duty to the state, for the state lives in its individuals: and I do my duty again in another way by giving up to the use of the state my property and person, for the individual lives in the state. What other view will justify the facts of political life?
Bradley, F.H. Essay. In Ethical Studies: Selected Essays, 140–47. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1951.
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Written by Josiah Royce
Narrated by Joshua Noyer
From the Article: As a fact, then, the unity of the Spirit, the religious life which has been and is embodied in the form of human fraternities, is the peculiar possession of no one time, or nation, and belongs to no unique and visible church. Yet such unity is a source of religious insight.
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Written by David Ritchie
Narrated by Joshua Noyer
From the Article: THE critics of Idealism, so numerous at the present time, seem to me more ready to uphold against the claims of thought the superior dignity of the Real, than to explain what they mean by that very ambiguous term.
Ritchie, David G. “What Is Reality?” The Philosophical Review 1, no. 3 (1892): 265–78. https://doi.org/10.2307/2175783
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Written by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Narrated by Joshua Noyer
From the Article: For Truth is the Unity of the universal and subjective Will; and the Universal is to be found in the State, in its laws, its universal and rational arrangements. The State is the Divine Idea as it exists on Earth.
Pp. 38-42 Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. Philosophy of History. Translated by John Sibree. New York: Colonial Press, 1900.
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Written and Narrated by Joshua Noyer
From the Article: When much of the population, not just small children, take an active interest in comic books, and anime, with their puerile, simplistic discourses, you know that something is wrong. When the hottest ticket in town is Comic-Con, where half the attendees are dressed up like it's Halloween, you know there’s a problem.
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Written by Ernest Renan
Narrated by Joshua Noyer
From the Article: The fact of race, which was originally crucial, thus becomes increasingly less important. Human history is essentially different from zoology, and race is not everything, as it is among the rodents or the felines, and one does not have the right to go through the world fingering people's skulls, and taking them by the throat saying: 'You are of our blood; you belong to us!' Aside from anthropological characteristics, there are such things as reason, justice, the true, and the beautiful, which are the same for all. Be on your guard, for this ethnographic politics is in no way a stable thing and, if today you use it against others, tomorrow you may see it turned against yourselves.
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Written and Narrated by Joshua Noyer
From the Article: How is a society supposed to move forward, composed of citizens interacting with each other when that society is slowly devolving into two separate hostile camps, one with a D, the other identified with an R? The answer is that it cannot. The path we’re headed towards is one of destruction, because both of these camps fail to recognize the integral value and internal nature of both the tendency to conserve and the tendency towards innovation.
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Written and Narrated by Joshua Noyer
"The true State is not based upon an abstract theory of extracting man from the source of his individuality, but of building an institution which is based upon man’s nature and is designed to facilitate the spiritual aspect of that nature."
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From the Article: At this point the deficiencies of democracy have become manifest. The reality of democratic life, as can be seen on a daily basis, has been rejected by most of the populace. What keeps the present structure from undergoing radical change is the myth; those visual representations meant to mobilize the masses. The lie, the propaganda, that ‘we no longer have democracy’, and ‘only if we became more open and democratic - this is what is keeping the legs from collapsing under the weight of democratic contradictions.
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Written by Josiah Royce
Narrated by Joshua Noyer
From the Article: The real world is therefore not something independent of us. It is a world whose stuff, so to speak, whose content, is of the nature of experience, whose structure meets, validates, and gives warrant to our active deeds, and whose whole nature is such that it can be interpreted in terms of ideas, propositions, and conscious meanings, while in turn it gives to our fragmentary ideas and to our conscious life whatever connected meaning they possess.
Royce, J. (1908). Pp. 360-373. In The Philosophy of Loyalty. New York: Macmillan Company.
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From the Article: There are very few instances which can be classified as being individual in nature, being isolated from society and not causing extended ripples into the larger social arena. The more society evolves the more evident it becomes that the lines which used to separate private from public have always been more arbitrary than scientific and need to be reconsidered.
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From the Article: Here’s the fundamental contradiction in liberal democratic social contract theory. If the State of Nature (which even amongst the proponents of the social contract, was admitted to have existed) were at any time, a reality then its essential brutishness would make it unlivable. Would a simple enforcement of contract and property rights really be adequate to address a social landscape characterized by constant anarchy and warfare?
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- Recording begins on the third paragraph
Written by J.A. Smith
Narrated by Joshua Noyer For the philosopher—the lover of, and believer in, unity—is not surprised by differences; he expects them: he is quite ready to acknowledge them, and has no desire to ignore or belittle them. What he believes in is not mere or blank unity, or unity alongside of differences, or even unity permitting them, but systematic or organic unity which requires differences within its ordered and harmonious structure.
Smith, J. A. (1910). Knowing and acting. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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Written and Narrated by Joshua Noyer
"Let’s assume that the native-born population would decline to such an extent that pensions and entitlement programs couldn’t function without young immigrant workers. Within a liberal democratic context, there is no other solution than to import people from abroad to fill these roles. The limited nature of the liberal democratic government, (its adherents believing that government is an artificial construct, a necessary evil with restricted and defined powers) leaves little to no room to deal with deep societal problems, more often than not dismissing them as the consequences of living in a free society."
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Written by Emile Durkheim Narrated by Joshua Noyer
"For the establishment of an occupational ethic and law in the different economic occupations, the corporation, instead of remaining a confused aggregate, without unity, would have to become again a defined, organized group; in a word, a public institution."
Durkheim, E. (1893/1933). -The Division of Labor in Society – George Simpson., trans. - New York: Macmillan - Preface to the second edition, pp. 1-31
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Written by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Narrated by Joshua Noyer
"The state in and by itself is the ethical whole, the actualization of freedom; and it is an absolute end of reason that freedom should be actual. The state is mind on earth and consciously realizing itself there."
Pp 155-158, 279. Hegel, G. W. (1942). Hegel's Philosophy of right (1003178556 773480545 T. M. Knox, Trans.). Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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Written by The Ax
Narrated by Joshua Noyer
"Another reason for not voting is legitimizing capitalism and its ethos. This means you recognize the prevailing order should exist by participating in it, just like the crime example above. Legitimacy results when people say that it is OK to continue with a structure or action. Codification by law solidifies it formally, but there is de facto legitimation, as in using crypto-currencies, union-busting, not paying workers their fair share, or making substandard quality goods."
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Written by Josiah Royce Narrated by Joshua Noyer
"Liberty alone never saves us. Democracy alone never saves us. Our political freedom is but vanity unless it is a means through which we come to realize and practise charity, in the Pauline sense of that word."
Pp 42-52 Royce, J. (1916). The hope of the great community. New York, NY: Macmillan.
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Written and Narrated by Joshua Noyer
As the franchise is extended, however, politics comes to resemble more and more a marketplace. The average person not having the time, knowledge, or will to make an informed choice; the center of gravity shifts from those most qualified to hold office to those least qualified but more apt and skilled at being a competent salesperson.
https://www.nationalreformation.org/post/the-objective-state
Written by FH Bradley
Narrated by Joshua Noyer
"Yes, the state is not put together, but it lives; it is not a heap nor a machine; it is no mere extravagance when a poet talks of a nation's soul. It is the objective mind which is subjective and self-conscious in its citizens—it feels and knows itself in the heart of each. It speaks the word of command and gives the field of accomplishment, and in the activity of obedience it has and bestows individual life and satisfaction and happiness."
“Pp. 119-124.” Ethical Studies: Selected Essays, by F.H Bradley, Bobbs-Merrill, 1951.
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Written by The Ax
Narrated by Joshua Noyer
"Identity politics, rather than providing humane solutions to social problems, is a crowd-pleasing low-brow appeal to primitive tribal instincts."
Written by Wilbur Urban
Narrated by Joshua Noyer
"Any philosophy, we said, written in the tradition of historic idealism is in its totality a philosophy of spirit. It gives a privileged position to mind or spirit in its interpretation of the world. If the world is to be viewed as a totality at all and classical idealism has always believed that there are reasons for so viewing it that totality must be conceived as organic rather than as a mechanical aggregate, as mental rather than as merely vital, and as concretely spiritual rather than as a system of abstract ideas or essences."
Pp. 122-128 Barrett, Clifford L. Contemporary Idealism in America. New York, NY: The Macmillan Company, 1932.
https://www.nationalreformation.org/post/metaphysical-idealism
Written and Narrated by Joshua Noyer
https://www.nationalreformation.org/post/black-white-and-a-little-grey-in-the-age-of-covid-19
Chairman Noyer discusses the problems inherent within multiparty democracies; how expression and and the will are silenced in favor of a dull surface conformism.
https://www.nationalreformation.org/post/the-integral-center
Written and Narrated by Joshua Noyer
"While America’s politicians still insist on “tilting at windmills” and fitting square pegs into round holes by engaging in polemics surrounding the dangers of a lack of checks and balances, a new power establishment has arisen, which knows no values and exists without a check to its power, Corporate America."
https://www.nationalreformation.org/post/separation-of-powers
Written By Theodore Roosevelt
Narrated by Joshua Noyer
Address delivered at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910.
"Character must show itself in the man's performance both of the duty he owes himself and of the duty he owes the state."
https://www.nationalreformation.org/post/citizenship-in-a-republic
Written and Narrated by Joshua Noyer
"A single party does what a multiplicity fails at. Whereas the latter solidifies division and produces dogma, the former embraces all the different aspects of thought and unifies them under one umbrella, called the State."
https://www.nationalreformation.org/post/the-integral-center
Written by F.H. Bradley
Narrated by Joshua Noyer
"In morality the existence of my mere private self, as such, is something which ought not to be, and which, so far as I am moral, has already ceased. I am morally realized, not until my personal self has utterly ceased to be my exclusive self."
Pp 22-25 Bradley, F. H. Ethical Studies: Selected Essays. Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill Educational Pub., 1951.
https://www.nationalreformation.org/post/the-whole-self
Written and Narrated by Joshua Noyer
"If nothing else is self-evident about us humans, it’s that we have a need, a desire to belong to something greater than ourselves. Our history is full of examples of people fighting and dying for causes which they could barely define, yet conceptualize."
https://www.nationalreformation.org/post/loyalty-to-what-to-whom
Written and Narrated by Cory Faust
If Greta Thunberg and her student climate activists exist, protest, and speak out about the climate it does not mean that the problems of our environment are fake news. Many in America routinely react to issues identified on the news, whether it comes from Fox News, MSNBC, or CNN. Rather than shaping a view on issues facing us based on scientific evidence and truth, many would rather let emotions heat up and react to positions taken by those they disagree with based on political identity, or in the case of Greta and her student movement, their age.
https://www.nationalreformation.org/post/the-fight-against-globalization-to-react-is-to-lose