On Wing to Beauty, Wisdom & Goodness

By |2021-04-13T11:13:17-05:00May 7th, 2013|Categories: Classics, Plato, Quotation, Wisdom|

The wing is the corporeal element which is most akin to the divine, and which by nature tends to soar aloft and carry that which gravitates downwards into the upper region, which is the habitation of the gods. The divine is beauty, wisdom, goodness, and the like; and by these the wing of the soul [...]

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Wilhelm Roepke: German Economist as Southern Neighbor

By |2016-12-30T09:41:14-06:00May 7th, 2013|Categories: Economics, Political Economy, Ralph Ancil, Wilhelm Roepke|

Wilhelm Roepke How can a German economist be called a Southerner? Obviously not geographically but in the important sense that Southern Agrarians came to understand, as a possession of the mind and spirit. That Wilhelm Roepke’s mind and spirit, embodying the best of the German tradition, share significantly in the essential features of [...]

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