Principles and Heresies

Norman Mailer’s Culture Hero

Time is wearing away the moral capital, inherited from an earlier age, which has thus far prevented the champions of relativism from acting like the beasts their philosophy envisions men to be. John Dewey personally lived, I am sure, an upright life. Followers of his, such as Sidney Hook, on particular issues very often display exemplary moral attitudes, totally at variance with their philosophical teaching, a teaching corrosive of all values except the successful achievement of random emotional desires.

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Frank S. Meyer

Frank S. Meyer was a senior editor of National Review.

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Norman Mailer’s Culture Hero

Time is wearing away the moral capital, inherited from an earlier age, which has thus far prevented the champions of relativism from acting like the beasts their philosophy envisions men to be. John Dewey personally lived, I am sure, an upright life. Followers of his, such as Sidney Hook, on particular issues very often display exemplary moral attitudes, totally at variance with their philosophical teaching, a teaching corrosive of all values except the successful achievement of random emotional desires.