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    The Rise Of The Orthos

    The "Orthos" seem very similar to the New Right save for their religious perspective but I've never heard this term before.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouvelle_Droite

    http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/4904

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    I pause here to note that it is difficult to summarize the orthos' beliefs succinctly. This is partly because of their often high level of philosophical abstraction, and partly because the orthosphere (the orthos' term for the network of blogs and websites they administer and write for) is a loose coalition of people who do not necessarily agree about everything. Still, I think the founding idea of the orthosphere can be fairly oversimplified into this sentence: “The problem with the modern world is modernity itself”. For the orthos, the philosophical core of modernity is the rejection of the Aristotelian-Catholic idea that there are objective essences and purposes in the world. Many of the orthos trace this idea back to the nominalism of late-Medieval scholastics like William of Ockham, although they would also argue that it did not culminate until the 18th century and the Enlightenment. In philosophy, this modern nominalism gave rise to the idea that the world consists of nothing but meaningless, purposeless matter, and thence to modern atheism, materialism, relativism, and finally the complete nihilism which today is increasingly engulfing America and Europe. In ethics and politics, it produced a worship of autonomy – the idea that every individual can and should define its own purpose and destiny, unfettered by tradition, authority, or higher truth – which became the founding idea of every modern political ideology, from the classical liberalism of Locke to the redistributive leftism of the modern state. (The American philosopher Edward Feser, while having given no indication that he considers himself part of the orthosphere, provides an excellent overview and critique of this modern anti-essentialism in his book The Last Superstition.)

    This is a radical idea, and it entails a radical conservatism. The orthos reject the Enlightenment project entirely, and espouse many ideas that are unfashionable even on the Right, including theocracy, censorship, and absolute monarchy. Their ideology centers around the defense of particular loyalties and moral communities, of traditional authority, traditional morality, the monarchy, the patriarchal family, the ethnos, and the Church. Many of them draw inspiration from the throne-and-altar conservatism of counterrevolutionaries like Joseph de Maistre, Louis de Bonald, and Juan Donoso Cortés, and seek to rescue the Middle Ages from the historical scrapheap. Needless to say, orthodox Christianity is central to the their thinking (hence the name) – in fact, I have yet to come across an ortho who is not a traditionalist Catholic or a conservative Protestant.
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    Although the term itself was only coined in late 2011...
    I guess that explains it.
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    I was going to say I have never heard the Term used for anything But a medical clinic.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MMC View Post
    I was going to say I have never heard the Term used for anything But a medical clinic.
    I forgot all about the Brussels Journal. I'm glad I saw a link to it earlier this afternoon. I identify more with the radical right than I ever have before and the ideas of the New Right etc. get an airing in the Brussels Journal. I've been delving into theology for the most part lately but some works in political philosophy are next on my agenda.
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    What do you mean by the radical right or new right?
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    Quote Originally Posted by MMC View Post
    What do you mean by the radical right or new right?
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouvelle_Droite
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister D View Post
    I meant why you identify more to that far right? Sorry.....

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    I've come to reject most if ot all of the underlying tenets of liberalism including equality, democracy, individualism, and rationalism.
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    Why so on individualism?
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