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The Social Classes - I
Differentiations & participation in society
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Medieval Paternalism & Progressivist Neo-Slavery
Comparing the medieval guilds to the modern labor system
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Virtues & Traditions of a Healthy Family
Imbuing children with good traditions prevents bad laws
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The Natural Candidate to Exercise Power
Command naturally comes from service to community, not wealth
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Richness of Soul in the People’s Life
Nativity figures reflect their vibrant personalities
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The Grandeur of the King Dignifies the Cook
The influence of Windsor Castle over the great & the small
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| Organic Society & City Planning
The harmonic life of the people in Santa Maria Formosa Square in Venice
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Power, Command & Influence
Napoleon's fall came from the corrosion of his influence
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Command versus Influence
How tennis shoes are being imposed on society
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Fostering the Originality of Each Social Cell
The superior should not compress a living reality
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| A Missing Bourgeois Elite
Failure of the monetary class to develop its own organic elite
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| Admiration, Foundation for the Reign of Mary
Its essential role in the counter-revolutionary mentality
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| Liberalism, Socialism & Feudalism
 Part 1 - Discussing Liberal & Socialist Democracies
Tragic abuses appeared in 19th century liberal democracy
Part 2 - Socialism Exploits Liberalism’s Flaws
The free market leads to price wars, monopolies and worker strikes
Part 3 - The Fiasco of Socialism & Basics on Catholic Authority
No incentives in Socialism - Man's need for authority
Part 4 - The Principle of Subsidiarity
A Catholic solution that surpasses Liberalism and Socialism
Part 5 - Subsidiarity & Feudalism
Social inequality and private property are also evangelical
Part 6 - The Medieval Family & Subsidiarity
The role of primogeniture in family development
Part 7 - The Role of Local Authorities & Customs
Subsidiarity gave a voice to the people & customs the force of law
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| How God Uses the Dynamism of Individuals & Peoples
Part 1 - Discerning the Dynamism of Individuals & Peoples
How God gives different vocations in History
Part 2 - Discerning the Historic Roles of Nations
How some nations have a post life and role in History
Part 3 - Peoples who Disappear, Peoples who Remain
How God calls peoples to History or let them die
Part 4 - How a People Fulfills its Vocation
The good fruit that comes when man follows Plan A of God
Part 5 - How Ghosts & Myths Influence the Psychology of a People
The influence of subtle factors that only a few persons discern
Part 6 - Reason & Myths
How a disciplined mind favors the building of a Catholic society
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| Advantages of Cumulative Property
Harmony between private and collective property in the Middle Ages
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| Customary Law & Roman Law
The role of Roman Law in an organic progress
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| Customary Law, the Foundation & Charm of a Catholic State
A good moral order is transformed into customs, and customs into laws
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| Formation of the Holy Roman-German Empire
The natural development from small states to the empire
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| Monarchy, Aristocracy & Democracy
Part 1 - Definitions, Examples of the Three Forms of Government
Their healthy life and their corruption
Part 2 - Theoretical and
Practical Positions of the Church
The Church helps each people to choose its form of government
Part 3 - Does Authority Represent God or the Sovereign People?
The authorities can be bad, but they represent God
Part 4 - Catholic Rebuttal to Rousseau’s Sovereignty of the People
Men are equal
in theory, but very different in practice
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| The Art of Organic Government
Orienting the good tendencies of a people and meeting their expectations
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| What Is the Res Publica?
State, Nation, private & public interests explained in an easy way
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| Mittenwald and Its Violins
An ambience conducive to sublimity and art
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| The Three Orders of Medieval Society
All social classes participate in the government of an organic society
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| The Perfect Societies: Church & State
Their nature and the role of participation in their power
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| How Intermediary Societies Participate in the State Power
Organic customs shape an area's culture and personality
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| A Participative Society
Even modest families have a voice in society
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| The Organic Formation of a Region
The healthy development of Galicia around Santiago de Compostela
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| Different Types of Nobility
Many ways for the bourgeoisie to ascend to nobility
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| The Bourgeois in Free Cities and in Kingdoms
Two different kinds and situations, but the same mentality
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| The Healthy Rise of the Bourgeoisie
Historical examples in France, Portugal and Brazil
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| All Classes Should Have Elites
How elites were born in the medieval guilds
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| The City and Its Nobility
How a nobility unlinked to military duties can rise
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| An Élan for Perfection Should Exist in All Classes
This is what was missing in the medieval cities
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| Andorra, the Forgotten Principality
Its unique medieval government and traditions endure to our days
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| Organic versus Revolutionary Progress
Authentic progress stimulates man to practice virtue and strive for Heaven
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| How Man Should Act over His Natural Environment
Criteria to consider in developing land preserving God's plan for nature
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| Oligarchies in Modern Democracies
The myth of the sovereign people and who really controls them today
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| Restoring a Closed Economy
Temperance and a love of perfection lead to a healthy regionalism
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| Two Opposed Poles of Society: Prestige and Money
The mentality necessary for the restoration of a Catholic society
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| Organic Society & Capitalism
Part 1 - Critique of Capitalism from an Organic Perspective
Defects of Capitalism that must be avoided in a Catholic society
Part 2 - The Harmful Mentality of Borrowing Money
No one should borrow money to buy what he does not need
Part 3 - What to Do with the Surplus of Currency
How a Catholic State should handle the circulating currency
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| The Role of Economy in the Collapse of the Medieval Mentality
Moral factors that change the structure of local economies
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| The Decay of the Medieval Guilds
The seed of an unbridled Capitalism entered with a change in mentalities
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| Leadership: Established by Generosity & Gratitude, Not a Social Contract
Critique of the modern conception of power born from an exchange of interests
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| The Natural and Unnatural Decline of the Clan
Different ways to lose vitality in a clan and in an area
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| The State of Mind that Generated the Revolution
The revolted spirit rejects sacrality, respectability and grandeur
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| Clans and Human Types
The healthy development of human types in families, regions, and countries
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| Respectability in the Medieval Professions
The veneration of the people for Bishops, Kings and heads of guilds
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| Two Basic Aspects of the Medieval Mentality
Reverence and tenderness toward Our Lord formed wise men and respectable institutions
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| The Clan and the Family
When the family becomes very large, its fringes generate another reality
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| Proportion between the City and the Man
Maintaining the relationship between city and countryside; limiting a city's size
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| Patriarchs in the Middle Ages and in Ancient Rome
The familiar structure of society as the base of an organic aristocracy
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| The Dream of Catholic Empire and the Medieval Wars
The real cause for the many quarrels was not Feudalism
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| Feudalism and the Modern State
Contention between the feudal power and the cities; birth of Absolutism
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| The Organic Formation of Feudalism
How medieval society took root and sprouted
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| The Peasant-Nobles of the Roncal Valley - Part 1
How this courageous mountain people won the privilege of becoming nobles
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| The Tribute of the Three Cows - Roncal Valley - Part 2
A tribute paid to the peasant-nobles of Roncal Valley every year since 1375
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| Groups of Friends and Guilds
How friendships form and develop in organic society
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| The Coronation Feast for the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
How nobles and people commemorated together
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| Vocations of the European Peoples
How those different peoples were called to love God and reflect His glory
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| The Role of Admiration and Affection in the Family
Admiration is the profound link that binds families and groups
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| Organic Society and The Desire for Heaven
How family ambiences can help a man to feel at home on earth
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| The Steps of an Organic Relationship
How friendhips form in a Catholic society
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| What Is Organic Society?
The members and organs that compose a healthy society
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| The Moon and its Halo
Why should a Catholic be concerned about Society and not only about Religion?
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