Metaphysics and metapolitics
List of Articles
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The Words and Concepts of Liberalism
In her latest book, Caëla Gillespie offers a lexicon of the key words and concepts of liberalism, tracing them in the order of their historical emergence. The result is a unique lens through which to view the political and economic developments shaping today’s Western societies. She even forged the neologism “pan-liberalism”, which has become necessary. What follows is her lexicon. — Bruno Bérard.
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Metapolitical Eschatology
This article explores the metapolitical eschatologies of Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821) and Vladimir Soloviev (1853-1900). By applying the methodological framework of Eugene Rosenstock-Huessy (1888-1973), the result is a metapolitical synthesis that transcends deterministic or purely theological models, highlighting a living, participatory path toward eschaton rooted in both human action and divine calling.
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From Economic Irresponsibility to Political Irresponsibility: Toward Universal Apoliticism
In the world governed by supply and demand, any attempt to regulate the excesses of supply ultimately reveals its inherent irresponsibility. At the same time, the limited scope of such regulatory measures exposes the political and legislative irresponsibility of those in power. This dual failure—economic and political—helps to explain the broader phenomenon of generalized irresponsibility. It sheds light on why the state appears increasingly apolitical and why citizens themselves are progressively disengaging from political life.
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About the Manufacture de l’homme apolitique
If “democracy” itself, plutocratic from the outset in the USA as well as in France, and explicitly confiscating power from the people, ends up transforming citizens into apolitical inhabitants, ultraliberalism, by vassalizing the States, gradually renders them just as apolitical. The manufacture of apolitical man is an irreversible trend. If Caëla Gillespie’s meticulous analysis makes awareness clear, we’ll just have to devise a plan of action for resistance.
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Wealth production: an unthought-of aspect of economic theory
The pursuit of productivity for its own sake, by lowering prices and increasing volumes, certainly makes it possible to capture a greater share of the value circulating in trade. But it is here that the contradiction inherent in the idea of “wealth production” becomes clear, long after Adam Smith: in the relentless quest to produce better, faster and therefore cheaper, we destroy the value of what we produce, hoping to capture a greater share of wha twe don’t produce.
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About metapolitics on the metafysikos website
When Joseph de Maistre took the word Metapolitik from German philosophers into French, he understood it in terms of the metaphysics of politics. Aldo La Fata’s panorama of metapolitics is much broader, going back to a Christian usage in canon law and has spread, in line with current usage in various Western cultures (Spain, Italy, […]
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Genealogy of metapolitics
After a biographical work dedicated to Silvano Panunzio and published in the “Tabula fati” collection by Marco Solfanelli’s publishing house: Silvano Panunzio. Vita e pensiero, Edizioni Solfanelli, Chieti 2021, this condensed article is dedicated to the metapolitical perspective of the famous traditional writer, Silvano Panunzio, about whom little has been said until now.
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Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité
The current difficulties of these Western democracies (disavowal of politics, abstention, riots on unjustified pretexts), because they have expressly opted for exclusively representative regimes opposed to the original idea of democracy as power-sharing, could be mitigated by a better understanding of the definitions of the terms of what were once its principles, before they were reduced to a simple motto: liberty, equality, fraternity.
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From Democracy to Diacracy
If we can easily denounce the current democratic illusion, it’s because modern democracies have explicitly rejected all democracy in favor of representative regimes. It’s no surprise, then, that the difficulties in which they are bogged down make democracies simply impossible. And yet, going back to the fundamentals of the past millennia (Hammurabi, Solon, Aristotle…), the possibility of democracy reappears. It simply needs to be renamed “diacracy”: power belongs to everyone, and “all that’s needed” is to share it in time and space, as an exclusively representative regime has no right to pre-empt it.
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Metaphysics of Ecology
After a brief overview of what ecology, metaphysics and a brief history of sustainable development are, the corresponding ethics are reviewed before a theology and, above all, a metaphysics of ecology is proposed.