Thread: THE FOUR CARDINAL ERRORS THAT ALMOST DESTROYED AMERICA

THE FOUR CARDINAL ERRORS THAT ALMOST DESTROYED AMERICA
PART 3

By Professor Steven Yates
October 17, 2009
NewsWithViews.com

Cardinal Error Three. This error in a nutshell:

Americans—intelligentsia first, consciously, but eventually our so-called leaders and much of the public tacitly—abandoned the inherent religiosity of the Founders and embraced a naturalistic materialism also imported from Europe. This has had serious consequences for our basic moral convictions, which became more hedonistic and utilitarian with every decade. Hedonism sees pleasure as the fundamental good. Utilitarianism holds that an amorphous “greater goodâ€

THE FOUR CARDINAL ERRORS THAT ALMOST DESTROYED AMERICA
PART 1

By Professor Steven Yates
October 17, 2009
NewsWithViews.com

Four Cardinal Errors, as I will call them, have all but destroyed our original Republic, dating from July 4, 1776 with the Declaration of Independence. Error One: the Republic failed to gain full freedom and economic sovereignty from the British Crown, and this state of affairs went unrecognized. Error Two: the country adopted an educational system whose premises were alien to those of a free Republic. Error Three: Americans slowly but steadily lost the “moral religiosityâ€

THE FOUR CARDINAL ERRORS THAT ALMOST DESTROYED AMERICA
PART 2

By Professor Steven Yates
October 17, 2009
NewsWithViews.com

Cardinal Error Two. In the 1840s, an educational system whose premises were alien to those of a free republic was brought into this country.

I.

Horace Mann of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts traveled to Prussia and returned to his home state with word of what he considered an amazing school system. The Prussian system, steeped in the philosophy of Georg W.F. Hegel, not John Locke or Thomas Jefferson, operated under the assumption that the individual belongs to the state instead of to himself and to his God. It “educatedâ€