Just a snippet of think stuff here:
...The revolutionary outlook of modernity rested in its separation of
aesthetics and morality, and in doing so, made both beauty and morality
necessarily relative and solipsistic. In its relativism, as Allan Bloom
noted in The Closing of the American Mind, a degradation of
rational cultivation that had been central to classical philosophy
through Catholic philosophy occurred. Rational introspection to arrive
at truth is only possible through the fully cultivated intellect, but
the spirit of relativism and postmodernism have rendered such notions as
impossible to ever attain. Relativism is the great embodiment of
anti-intellectualism as Leo Strauss explained in Natural Right and History.
And the slip into solipsism and atomizing individualism runs counter to
the social and communitarian impulse of human nature and Catholic
philosophy....
Remember, please, that Allan Bloom was a committed atheist, not some church-y kinda guy.
More--lots more--at the link.
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