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    Upbuilding Political Culture: Why a Self-Ruling People Pursues the Ends of Civil and Religious Liberty
    Upbuilding Political Culture: Why a Self-Ruling People Pursues the Ends of Civil and Religious Liberty
    Upbuilding Political Culture: Why a Self-Ruling People Pursues the Ends of Civil and Religious Liberty
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    Upbuilding Political Culture: Why a Self-Ruling People Pursues the Ends of Civil and Religious Liberty

    By R. J. Gruber, Jr

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    Mr. Gruber advances the debate on the future of conservatism by showing that a constructive political culture must preserve both the moral and material bases of the American Republic. This brief work uses Abraham Lincoln’s “Lyceum Address” to argue that the 22nd century will be won by directing our present vision toward the ends of both civil and religious liberty.

    The excesses of identity politics, political materialism, and moral relativism are tackled head-on while making a case for renewing the spirit of self-rule by integrating the political faith of the Declaration of Independence into our daily lives. "Upbuilding Political Culture" is the first installment in the Political Animal Project series of publications (politicalanimalproject.com).

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherR. J. Gruber, Jr
    Release dateJun 13, 2018
    ISBN9780692136386
    Upbuilding Political Culture: Why a Self-Ruling People Pursues the Ends of Civil and Religious Liberty
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    R. J. Gruber, Jr

    R. J. Gruber Jr. is at once an artist and theorist, an entrepreneur and educator. As founder of the Political Animal Project, Mr. Gruber has launched a conservative political education campaign that seeks to integrate the first-principles of our Declaration of Independence into the blueprinting of tomorrow’s constructive political culture. Mr. Gruber’s positive political vision was developed during the nearly six years he spent as Teaching Assistant to a great-souled, conservative professor of political thought, Dr. Elliot Bartky. Yet, rather than following his mentor into academia, he is translating the perennial wisdom of the West into popular formats that invite audience members to engage with the living roots of the American political tradition. Recently returned to the Catholic Church, he lives with his wife and their two children in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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      Upbuilding Political Culture - R. J. Gruber, Jr

      Upbuilding Political Culture:

      Why a Self-Ruling People Pursues the Ends of Civil and Religious Liberty

      By R. J. Gruber Jr.

      RJGRUBERJR, LLC Cincinnati

      UPBUILDING POLITICAL CULTURE:

      WHY A SELF-RULING PEOPLE PURSUES THE ENDS OF CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY

      Copyright R.J. Gruber Jr., 2018

      All rights reserved. Except for brief passages quoted in newspaper, magazine, radio, television or online reviews, no portion of this book may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or information storage or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the author.

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      politicalanimalproject.com

      ISBN 978-0-692-13638-6

      Political Animal Project logo designed by Mrs. Kelly Gruber

      The guiding symbol for this project is derived from Abraham Lincoln’s Lyceum Address. This image is drawn out of Lincoln’s description of America’s founding generation as trees of men who devoted their fortunes, blood, and ultimately even their lives to our young Republic. Toward the end of this marvelous speech he tells us how these trees of people became the pillars of what he so aptly called the temple of liberty. This poetic rendering, of people becoming strong as trees and then upbuilding liberty’s edifice, duly frames the Political Animal Project by emphasizing how the pursuit of liberty transforms the lives of those who bear its burdens in accord with our Declaration's political faith.

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      First printing June 2018

      Contents

      Preparing the Grounds

      Building the Foundation

      Appraising the Materials

      Blueprinting the Vision

      Discerning the Ends

      Living the Pursuit

      Lincoln's Lyceum Address

      The Declaration of Independence

      Endnotes

      About the Author

      Preparing the Grounds

      The Political Animal Project is a political education campaign designed to help renew the American Republic by spurring the development of new modes and orders of self-rule. As frustration mounts among decent-souled citizens, we seek to reclaim the transformative promise of the West that is woven into the foundation of the American political order. And, moored in our Declaration’s political faith, we devote ourselves to the task of upbuilding tomorrow’s constructive political culture that might once again forge new links into our regime’s common purpose.

      This approach to renewing political life is decidedly out of fashion. Simply put, it’s unpleasant to measure individual well-being in relation to our atrophied public domain. The only justifiable reason for burdening our private lives with the problems of said public realm is if the well-being of the former depends somehow upon the condition of the latter. We contend that the two are causally connected and that, as a rule, we’re paying insufficient attention to the interrelatedness of these spheres.

      While self-preservation may be the first and fundamental law of nature, politically the person doesn’t come first. Rather, the linkages in our cultural chain that facilitate the pursuit of well-lived lives must have priority over individual claims of autonomy.i Operationally, we assert that our humanity is an uncertain proposition that is always in danger of retrogressing into mere barbarism or progressing into a sort of moral-gigantism. As such, we view

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