Ideologies / Paleo-Conservative / Richard M. Weaver
§ The minds · 1910–1963 · United States · Rhetorician
Richard M. Weaver
Ideas have consequences
The decline of the West, diagnosed.
Economic+66
SocialistMarket
Governance+44
LibertarianAuthoritarian
Social−72
TraditionalProgressive
The rhetorician whose 'Ideas Have Consequences' traced modern disorder to the abandonment of universals — a founding text of postwar traditionalist conservatism.
social
Profound traditionalist mourning lost transcendence.
economic
Property as 'the last metaphysical right' anchoring order.
governance
Hierarchy and piety against modern mass society.
Notable for
- 'Ideas Have Consequences'
- Defended property as metaphysical right
- Southern traditionalist
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