The Implications of Modern Philosophy: The Will To Fiction (History of Modern Philosophy) (Remastered)

CR101 Radio - Podcast Network · Oct 6, 2026 · 1h 1m

Rushdoony argues that when modern philosophy narrows reality to inner experience excluding God and “things-in-themselves” it produces a “will to fiction” that reshapes art, literature, politics, and daily life: earlier figures like Rubens still worked as disciplined, reality-tethered artisans and businessmen, but modern “artists” increasingly treat imagination as truth and self-mythologize, illustrated by Thoreau’s largely staged Walden, Whitman’s carefully constructed “common man” persona borrowed from George Sand, and D.H. Lawrence’s messianic self-delusions and nature-mysticism; this…