The Road To Ladies and Gentlemen Again

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🗓️ 23 May 2019

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Two years ago, the world lost a great scholar and Stoic philosopher, Peter Lawler. Peter, a longtime writer for National Review and political science professor at Berry College, was the kind of person interested in those seemingly archaic notions of honor and virtue and duty (you can read the interview Peter did with us just a few weeks before his untimely death). He also, according to his friends, was the kind of person who lived those ideals.

We live in a time of vulgarity and corruption and oversharing and selfishness. Some embrace these traits openly, others pay lip service to virtue while leading wicked private lives, others contribute to the decline and fall of goodness by trying to tear down everything that isn’t perfect or pure.

It would be wonderful if you could take a moment today—whether you’re a man or a woman—to meditate on this thought from Peter’s final essay, which was published on the eve of his death:

“Now’s the time to praise manliness, but only in the context of showing the road from anger, meaninglessness, and despair to a world once again full of ladies and gentlemen—people who know who they are and what they’re supposed to do as beings born to know, love, and die, and designed for more than merely biological existence.”

That’s the best way that we can honor Peter’s life—through goodness and fulfilling our potential. Thank you, Peter.

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0:36.3	The Road to Ladies and Gentlemen Again. Two years ago, the world lost a great scholar and Stoic philosopher, Peter Lawler.
0:45.3	Peter, a longtime writer for the National Review and a political science professor at Barry College, was the kind of person interested in those seemingly archaic notions of honor and virtue and duty.
0:57.3	You can read the interview Peter did with us just a few weeks before his untimely death. He also, according to his friends, was the kind of person who lived those ideals.
1:08.3	We live in a time of vulgarity and corruption and oversharing and selfishness. Some embrace these traits openly, others pay lip service to virtue while leading wicked, private lives, others contribute to the decline and fall of goodness by trying to tear down everything that isn't perfect or pure.
1:26.3	It would be wonderful if you could take a moment, whether you're a man or a woman, to meditate on this thought from Peter's final essay, which was published on the eve of his death.
1:37.3	Now is the time to praise manliness, but only in the context of showing the road from anger, meaninglessness, and despair to a world once again full of ladies and gentlemen, people who know who they are and what they're supposed to do as beings born to know, love, and love.
1:55.3	Love, and die, and designed for more than merely biological existence. That's the best way that we can honor Peter's life through goodness and fulfilling our potential.
2:07.3	Thank you, Peter.
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