“A total work of art is only possible in the context of the whole of society. Everyone will be a necessary co-creator of a social architecture, and, so long as anyone cannot participate, the ideal form of democracy has not been reached. Whether people are artists, assemblers of machines or nurses, it is a matter of participating in the whole.” LongArtMatterWholeFormArtistSocialDemocracyArt IsIdealsMachinesCreatorArchitectureWorks Of ArtNurseParticipatingDemocracies Have Author:Joseph Beuys
“The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike. Subjectivism about moral values is eternally incompatible with democracy. We and our rulers are of one kind only so long as we are subject to one law. But if there is no Law of Nature, the ethos of any society is the creation of its rulers, educators and conditioners; and every creator stands above and outside his own creation.” IfsKindLongIdeasLawValuesMoralDemocracySubjectsCreationCreatorObjectivesRulersLaws Of NatureEducatorEthosMoral ValuesMoral LawSubjectivism Book:Christian Reflections Source: Christian Reflections
“The American founding is not just about a group of people, a group of men. It is about an ideal: Both a vision and understanding of the very essence of democracy, constitutional government, a representative republic, and the remarkably powerful concept of being endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights.” PeopleMenGovernmentCertainUnderstandingPowerfulVisionDemocracyRightsGroupsConceptsIdealsEssenceCreatorRepublicRepresentativesFoundingConstitutional GovernmentUnalienable Rights Author:Paul Kengor