From Classical Poetics to the Modern Hermeneutics of Suspicion

This lecture briefly summarizes the final phase of the transformation from the Classical poetics of the ancient world, recalibrated by the Augustinian ordo amoris, a hermeneutics of love and faith, to a “hermeneutics of suspicion” of the Enlightenment’s atheist rationalist humanism.
Far from sweetness and light, the voluntarism of the new view of language, understood rightly by Schopenhauer, lead others to impute the self-interested motives of money (Marx), sex (Freud), and power (Nietzsche) to language, setting up the literary theories of the twentieth century for what we popularly term ‘postmodernism’.
From Classical Poetics to the Modern Hermeneutics of Suspicion
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[@nishantsharma006]

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[@andreyrussian2480]

Judging virtues needs to have a balance to clarify someone's action. It might be a source of major doubt. When it is "too much or never enough".

[@TheLookingGlassAU]

It's interesting that originally Augustine like Cicero better than the NT then later changed his mind, similar to the poets and critiques you are talking about wanting to go back to the Greeks. Rodger Scruton mentioned that most philosophers adopt a left leaning socialist-like position originally, and some philosophers keep thinking and don't stop with that initial view and break through to realizing the conservative position has real lasting merit and validity.

[@LitProf]

That’s what happens when you read carefully!