Weekends on cspan2 martin intellectual peace and resetting American History tv documents American Stores and suny tv brings the latest in nonfiction books and authors. Pending comes from these Television Companies and more. When youre connected, youre not alone. Cox along with these Television Companies support cspan2 is a public service. A winner of this years prize for conservative book of the year. Portraits of greatness, courage and moderation. [applause] dance book strikes a perfect scene for the book introducing the generation greatest in historyto George Washington, William Lincoln and many more in it exemplifies both an action to the virtue of prudence especially in the midst difficult circumstances. Dan has been involved for decades in the Honors Program over 15 years and published three books in addition to writing for modern age. Senior fellow at the Claremont Institute and seniorla writer ad received his ca the holy cross and catholic university. The winner of lashers prize describes the book as you search tribute to thinking men of action. Join me in welcoming dan ma mahoney. [applause] thank you so much. Im going to continue developing a thing introduced tonight. It is a genuine delight for the conservative year. How gratifyingyibe honor because ive been committed all my adult life to essential conservative test of reserving the transmitting and reforming and renewing civic inheritance to help define the west end america. I received this gratefully as assigned my efforts haveiv improved. It is a delight because of my Long Association with the studies institute, one that stretches back somewhere in the 1990s and my first summers Honor Program was when it was 103 degrees and some of my fondest memories are associated with isi. Oxford and cambridge when the dollar was holding its own. Quebec city to the north, Political Correctness and post christianity. I remember almost it makes it rewarding and delightful. Working with friends and have had the pleasure of participating in the George Washington program delivering lectures in washington, churchill and i am pleased to have an article on james scholl the issue of modern age. There was a man who knew the meaning of reason and revelation to the depths of his soul. I know all seven could in the world. There may be 12 or 14 but hes among the greatest of them. Before he died at the age of 91 and published a book in religious of humanity and i wrote him and said jim, i need your address to send you my book. He said nevermind, ive already reviewed it so there was a 91yearold who was alert to the verynd end and lets not forget the great decent energetic students i came across over the years but a few that challenged the nerds and they were just like, open and hungry for the kind of wisdom less and less available on College Campuses today so contemporaryy climate where education at every level combines repudiation of our inheritance with contentedness that seeks to destroy what remains of him. The work has become even more and i am proud to stand with isi in this enterprise. The inheritance is not good simply because it is old or hours but it is wisdom triedandtrue. As a result it appreciates we can never begin a new revolutionaryfe years zero and they got there first constitution, the world began a new, 12 months of the year were abolished and got rid of the sabbath so you learned was killed by the convention and we never had hereto in america. He doesnt exist anymore. It says something about the difference between the two. The americans were engaged in a noble experiment to see whether they could cover themselves by reflection and choice rather than accident ore. Force but ner in an effort on the part of our founders to reject the continuity of civilization in other words classical christian and it spoke to the souls in statesmanship of american founders. Destructive salads and the french revolutionaries did that displayingng contempt for this understanding of a primordial contract that connects the living, the dead and to get to be born. Tradition dedicated to liberty to western tradition for the dynamic expansive yet with ample room. Wrote so eloquently in classic sovereignty and inquiry into the political good, every individual with a fog of imagination feels indebted to many others. The wise man knows himself and his actions will be inspired by deep sense of obligation. The spirit of selfloathing and repudiationn in Education Today based on the retention of that. When and women become monsters, the autonomous self and that has led to utopian dreams for two petty goals, content with what is called licking the earth. Real human freedom and dignity need nourished by a deep sense of obligation starting without whom we cannot be or have anything at all. Natural piety is not solely focused on the past. It lifts our gaze outside ourselves with the natural order and open to grace that lifts our spirits and allows us to experience the presence of the living god. And the natural divine sources of our dignity of human beings, are we rendered capable of achieving greatness . The last raise to the book which in the argument, portraits of greatness, courage and moderation. Another one missing i said of course, good titles cant be too much food we had to leave, not forgotten but the title itself. In the boat it illustrates seven or so examples and a mention of many more that between virtues of moderation, is latin for the greek for greatness of soul aristotle talks about. Greatness of soul and a deeply felt sense of obligation of conscience go and handinhand. The domain of action guidance for practical reason what towers above and indoors is the admittedly rare combination of honorable ambitious self limitation where greatness and goodness coat exist if in some tension. We know the pool best articulated and defended, a christian virtue. The only apparently fear but in practice it is difficult to combine honorable ambition in a healthy sense of selfrestraint. Managed to do that managed to do it in an oppressive relatively unforced way. Washington was one example of noble honorable morally serious ambition which is the service of the country and larger because of civilized liberty across the atlantic and contemporaries wanted in washington. His duty was done. This he could not do. Guarded and not going home. Moderation and political sobriety he was as great as one could be but a new category the two perform greatness by the not so good. And the statesman said you feel like an mbr [laughter] charles said napoleon served moderation and it should be constructed for future generations building on the analysisis statesmanship. These works allow when they are severed from the rules of classical order and among the enemy and there is light on lincoln but in this civilized world was an officer so he had access to a Prison Library and started to write a book about why germany lost world war i that he blamed it on insubordination of german military, especially the power of contempt of moderation so what did they forget . Appreciation of being marked out by human experience, common sense and the law, truly statesman learned in 34 years of age the sense of balance of what is possible, of measure which renders the works of energy fruitful. They lacked major and sense of restraint. In 1924, the goal saw severing of greatness and military and political beliefs, how much worse was contempt for decency and moral law that informed revolution . Was unrelenting of them all the books, all the precious achievementsci against truth and human liberty and dignity and the idea that is a wonderful discussion when mark says i refuse to take seriously the name of philosophy, religion or justice and those are just the enemy and the people. As we conservatives know the commonest efforts to impose the great clinical philosopher calls second realities on the only human condition we know regards forms of murderous tierney tailored to unimaginable. Very sad how to structure the subsidiary with i believe in religious believers and assorted class enemies are young white men today ran through. This is an invitation. Today nearly 25 years or so after 1989, we are observing repetition in new t form. This imperfect but largely society, nothing but evil and justice exploitation. Critical race theory replaces gratitude for attic selfrespect. New groups of people are called to love themselves for civic community. Such unrelieved contempt for citizens has nothing to do with justice, social or otherwise. Quite the contrary. It makes a mockery of what makes paris life possible and creates this world of permanent victims and oppressors. Light years away from common humanity and citizenship. So much for moral realism, liberating moral realism that affirms the famous words the line separating good and evil passes not to states nor between Political Parties but every heart and all human hearts case of human nature and free discovered true central biblical wisdom and expressed in this moral political wisdom founding fathers, it is impossible to expel people from the world in its entirety but possible to construct a within person. To knowledge this is to begin to find wisdom and selfknowledge. In contrast, the coercive moral political fanatics or renew the ideological light of the 20th centuryh , to write and leftwig in the name of fighting racial ethnic and sexual injustice the band terrorizing the soul more polluting public space because they do not begin to understand the drama for each and every human soul. Persistence of the ideological life, they only know how to negate and repudiate and destroy precious arrogance passed on. We need new basement to arise and cultivate among us and the statesman for him or her. People often ask me how can we renew statesmanship represented by integrity . Ur the first thing, know who they are. Water swirled, jefferson nine out of ten a new yorkers can tel you who it is and that is reality, to. This is what the founders did. Political philosophy is true work that shapes moral and political imagination of thehe west well into the 19th century. As i described in my book, the honorable statesman is equally distant from manipulations of the superman contemptuous as they are of wisdom and ethical honorable ambitions but the toughminded exercise of authority by the humanitarian. A philosopher once said moral duty, they dont want us to have clean hands or any hands federal. The statesman needs and thats not the same thing as adopting this. Neither heart muscle, the truth statesman takes is very for the fine, the noble, honorable civilized liberty. The purposes of the statesman and this includes authority and institution, and Army Veterans and honor and not selfexpression for example for social engineering this is realistic yet high minded framework that are theories of repudiation, mindlessly bearing the set of legitimate Ahmaud Arbery and norms that serve the community of citizens. Crude oppressive selfserving and predictably raises to the core. R priests see only domination but others discern love, consent, community and affection and the Heritage Foundation honoring this memoir to a prominent, great insight with all Sexual Congress between men and women is a form of rape. The domination takes partial Truth Authority can become authoritarian and domineering and turns it into grammatical refusal to accept that power is sometimes at, least decent like the power of a loving parent. The statesman is moved by a local this country. They reduce everything to power and her struggle and they have come this very manner because they cant imagine relating. As i argue in the closing pages of my book, our task is to reaffirm the spirit of gratitude was caps on my forebears as a precious gift. Only by repudiating the real fighting chance of what i described in the that that act of renewal for the mandibles and exercise of greatness in moderation that will test free civilized men and women. True modernizing is drifted in about was aggressively repudiation direction. True moderation will demand not passivity before selfloathing repudiation. That is false courage among the english whigs like charles who wanted to like the last sentence of my book, the choice is ours. No reason to despair because you will is a gift. Always free to act, always free not to live life. It is up to us to exercise free will justly, courageously. Thank you very much. [applause] macbook tv celebrates 25 years of presenting nonfiction books and authors. The 22nd year in a row book tv live with the library of Congress National book of civil. Since 2001 book tv in partnership with the Library Congress provided signature indepth uninterrupted coverage of the National Book festival featuring hundreds of nonfiction authors and and guests. March saturday has book to be with coverage of the National Book festival. 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