What we need, then, is a mass reading of Beowulf. I'm just the guy to help. Call me. Alright--obviously kidding--but having taught Beowulf, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Arthurian legends, I can't help but think that a revival of those works might be in order...and I think they add just the right cinnamon on the latte of your thoughts here....
One's spirit and soul are hard to define. Here is a simplified version:
Your spirit is the intellect of your soul. They are both invisible forces. The spirit is the intellect of your soul; therefore, the intellect, which is your spirit, does your thinking for you. Your soul is the embodiment of your spirit. It feels; it responds to emotions, such as love. Both are invisible forces.
Reminds me of Chestertons little known work The Napoleon of Nothing Hill, where the protagonist is made king and decrees that London return to its medieval roots just as a joke, but it goes on for twenty years. A kid grows up under the joke and takes it seriously, turning himself into a knight of his little fiefdom and starts violently defending it in true knightly fashion. It's a great little book!
In all seriousness, as much as there was wrong with feudalism, Hilaire Belloc relooks at it and talks about the principle of subsidiarity in action in politics and economics in the Servile State which spawned the idea of distributism. So as the medieval spirituality and rational systems deserve a second look, perhaps the medieval political/social/economic system does as well.
What we need, then, is a mass reading of Beowulf. I'm just the guy to help. Call me. Alright--obviously kidding--but having taught Beowulf, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Arthurian legends, I can't help but think that a revival of those works might be in order...and I think they add just the right cinnamon on the latte of your thoughts here....
One's spirit and soul are hard to define. Here is a simplified version:
Your spirit is the intellect of your soul. They are both invisible forces. The spirit is the intellect of your soul; therefore, the intellect, which is your spirit, does your thinking for you. Your soul is the embodiment of your spirit. It feels; it responds to emotions, such as love. Both are invisible forces.
Sounds like an ideal time for Pendragon Cycle to drop......Arthurian Revival
Reminds me of Chestertons little known work The Napoleon of Nothing Hill, where the protagonist is made king and decrees that London return to its medieval roots just as a joke, but it goes on for twenty years. A kid grows up under the joke and takes it seriously, turning himself into a knight of his little fiefdom and starts violently defending it in true knightly fashion. It's a great little book!
In all seriousness, as much as there was wrong with feudalism, Hilaire Belloc relooks at it and talks about the principle of subsidiarity in action in politics and economics in the Servile State which spawned the idea of distributism. So as the medieval spirituality and rational systems deserve a second look, perhaps the medieval political/social/economic system does as well.