Dr Peter Kreeft on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Commencement Address at Harvard
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- Dr Peter Kreeft comments on the Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Commencement Address, "A World Split Apart," given at Harvard University on 8 June 1978
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Original Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Harvard Address:
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Just as Dr. Kreeft has helped me appreciate Blaise Pascal, he now helps me appreciate Mr. Solzhenitsyn. I am glad there are people smart enough to both understand super geniuses and to explain them to the rest of us.
A most excellent portrayal of one of the greatest sermons by one of the greatest prophets of the 20th century. Solzhenitsyn's analysis of the symptoms and diagnosis of modern society's sick corpus may have been too deeply insightful for the superficial minds of the "me-generation" of the 70s/80s, his prognostications too "far out" (as they use to say in those days) for the "me-generation" to perceive. But it is painfully clear now, in 2017, just how exact was his prognosis. His visionary prophesies have been made manifest with a vengeance. My sincerest thanks to Dr. Kreeft for his excellent (and entertaining) review of that great sermon, and to "A Mascia" for posting it and making it available to all in search of Truth in these extremely trying times. The proof of the power, truth, and beauty of the speech - and of Dr. Kreeft's analysis - is in the fact that no where these days (not in the public schools, the universities, or in social and political activist circles) will this great stroke of wisdom be permitted to see the light of day...except on an obscure YT channel that only a handful of courageous truth-seeking souls will encounter.
You are welcome. The original had the audio painfully low... so, obviously I had no choice but to "fix" it and repost it... too good to pass up, eh?
At the time in 1978 I was rather oblivious to the message Solzhenitsyn was sending but viewing it 40 years later through the eyes of Dr. Kreeft I am duly amazed and humbled by the visionary nature of Solzhenitsyn's analysis, a truly prophetic vision. He was able to articulate what I have felt in my gut for years, but was unable to articulate, a gnawing uneasiness that we are clearly headed in the wrong direction. By the way I was inspired to look up the speech and analyses by a recent article by Dr. Solzhenitsyn in the latest issue of National Review magazine where he reflects on the message he was sending and although humble about it clearly thinks his warnings are coming to pass.
To the person who posted this, I just wanted to say thank you.
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Your excellent dialogue nicely reveals the depth of Solhzenitsyn speach. One feels that spirituality, morality, humanism and political philosophy have all been painted in a most artistic and focused way. Thank you.
I heard this dialogue once again, and I found it equally deep once again.
Thank you, Dr. Kreeft!
Hi Macia, thank you for posting this. I really enjoyed this talk.
You are an angel. Thank you.
A great speech, and a good breakdown of it. Thank You, Dr. Kreeft.
Thanks for this.
Peter! God Bless You!
his talk is revealing. It has so much power and truth contained. Life is a contradiction, Communism produces the most suffering, but suffering produces the strongest people. This is why people like Jordan B Peterson and other reviving these notions are so needed today
Dr Kreeft is a genius!
Thank you so much, the audio on the original was so low it was unbearable.
... and, it was too good to miss, eh! So I just had to do it.
Thank you!
thanks very much for raising volume
thank you for this. the volume on the original was too low.
Today is the day after Scientist Stephen Hawking died and discovered for the first time that God is as real as real can get. Alexander Solzhenitsyn eloquently explained why God is the answer to man's self destruction, that destruction I fear to which the soul of poor unfortunate Stephen Hawking is condemned by his advocacy of unbelief. Hawking was a " Learned Man" and so loved by this world, Solzhenitsyn was something far better, a Wise man, whom this world now despises.
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A "wise man" you say? If Solzhenitsyn was a wise man MAY THE GODS SAVE OUR FOOLS! He was a pompous, reactionary old misfit!
He had NO answers to the practical problems people face in trying to survive in the modern mass societies of the west that he was addressing - and as a Eurocentrist he had nothing to say to the MAJORITY of mankind!
Hence he was given to spouting pious prattle based upon a spurious theory of history, and ultimately retreating into mysticism and religious MUMBO JUMBO!
When he finally rerurned to Russia after the fall of the communist party he was viewed by the younger generation as an irrelevant anachronism with no viable vision upon which to erect a new and better society!
At times it seemed like he wanted to bring back the Czar and the authoritarian Russian Orthodox church! He was a curosity, a figure of PITY AND RIDICULE! LOL
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@@Playthellgb42 and with you dies the desire to have a rational discussion. For if you call him "a figure of pity and ridicule" yet conform to belittle the opposing side in an argument, then you have not been taught how to maintain a civil discourse and rather should be the one pitied for your inability to come to a discussion ready to present your side but just as well listen to the opposing side out of respect for them.
@@willc6577 I DO NOT SUFFER FOOLS OR FOOLISHNESS GLADLY!!! AND IN THE END SOLZHENITSYN PROVED TO BE AN INEFFECTUAL CLUESS BUFFOON! SORRY MATE...BUT FACTS ARE STUBBORN THINGS!
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Well, the entire speech makes perfect sense for the people originating from the formerly known communism-Eastern Europe block. Unfortunately nowadays it has to be interpreted to Western World.
Thanks Dr Kreeft for a wonderfully enlightening lecture.
Absolutely fantastic!
The truth is, the truth doesn't exist anymore. Solzhenitsyn's last masterpiece, "200 Years Together" goes into great detail of the worst man made catastrophe in human history. The murder, rape, robbery and imprisonment of tens of millions of people. Some historians have estimated that Communism has caused the deaths of over 100,000,000 people. Yet today, those innocent lost souls don't even get a one liner in history and the criminal perpetrators are still in the mayhem business and even planning another event that most likely will at least double the number of victims of the last chaotic disaster that was the fodder of Solzhenitsyn's books.
The truth still exists. Love enough and be bold enough to speak it
Peter pronounced short-lived properly. Nobody else does.
Interesting. I noticed how he pronounced it, but didn't know it is correct. Thanks.
thank you ... you should check out Mark Pasio on " Natural Law ' ...
Agreed. We dismiss AS at our peril.
......or 200 years together....
I am glad to hear that Solzhenitsyn is as violent as I am. Stop being a coward and start crushing our enemies
P.S.: the video link of the original speech is taken down. Veritas.
Humm... thanks.
Better?
I can't help but imagine the voice he's making as Yoda
Oops... that could be a distraction from the excellence of his presentation. Well, good luck. 👍🏼
But wait, Yoda was wise. (?) Guess it could be worse.
@@amascia8327 It didn't bother me - if anything it made me even more engaged than I otherwise already was. I love Star Wars, so it helped me focus in and take notes about key topics he discussed.
It's beyond me
America didn't defeat Hitler's great war machine alone! Russia, UK, etc
we are fat
Im watching this just as Richard Dawkins releases another book designed for young people as of September 2019, which is as usual, full of typical Dawkins drivel.
This man was indeed a prophet.
There's nothing wrong with Dawkins.
I can't wait to buy his book with the English translator. ⏱️