Ferenc Hörcher

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Ferenc Hörcher

@HorcherF

Philosophy, poetry, @UpsPolitics, ELTE RCH, @CBPhull. An Aristotelian Philosophy of Civility. Culture and Politics (Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Nature, 2026)

Budapest Katılım Ekim 2019
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Ferenc Hörcher@HorcherF·
Professional update: I won a visiting research fellowship 2026, to the Politics Department of @Princeton University, generously sponsored by the James @MadisonProgram, led by @McCormickProf. My research topic is: Township, Subsidiarity, Oikophilia: In Defence of the Local. 2/1
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Ming the Merciless Fella
Ming the Merciless Fella@MingtheMercil15·
I remember having lunch with @R_Buttiglione in Liechtenstein, I brought up Scruton & surprisingly Rocco had never heard of him. I saw you've posted about Havel & Scruton separately, I totally get it. But in fairness to Rocco, he would tell wonderful stories about getting drunk with Umberto Eco. So in my eyes, Rocco's totally redeemed.
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Ming the Merciless Fella@MingtheMercil15·
@HorcherF It was indeed. Marching up the castle hill to Obuda in a torchlight procession on that day was a thing of great beauty, the purest expression of the human yearning for freedom.
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Ming the Merciless Fella@MingtheMercil15·
Hey @HorcherF, it is with great pleasure I follow you: I found your feed by accident, but many aspects of it are familiar to me. It’s good to see the Aristotelian legacy alive & well. Once upon a time many years ago, I was a fellow student of Professor Balázs Mezei, in Liechtenstein of all places!
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Ming the Merciless Fella@MingtheMercil15·
We're mutuals on FB still, I owe a lot to Balázs, it was thanks to him I first went behind the Iron Curtain, my friend Professor Max Torres & I hitchhiked from Vienna to Budapest on 15th March 1989 to join the demonstrations on that day. Max & I crashed at Bálazs' place. One of my formative experiences to this day!
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Nicolas McAfee
Nicolas McAfee@ndmcafee·
@HorcherF I see a vast, oceanic graveyard of conversations run aground - in no small measure because "liberalism" was no lighthouse.
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Ferenc Hörcher@HorcherF·
If conservatism and liberalism are not either-or, we need to investigate their - perhaps intricate and complex, yet crucial - relationship. As did Scruton. 2/1
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Ferenc Hörcher@HorcherF·
@jguipre I learnt that discipline from the Cambridge historians of political thought.
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Jack Guipre
Jack Guipre@jguipre·
@HorcherF Intellectual history or genealogy is a difficult art. One of the reasons Strauss is so interesting is that he seems good at it.
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Ferenc Hörcher@HorcherF·
@ImMadhuryaC Perhaps one can argue that the rule of law is a common denominator, beyond the concept of individual liberty itself.
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Christopher Satoor​​@aufgehenderRest·
Young Schelling, Hegel, and Hölderlin dancing around the Freedom Tree, singing "Hen Kai Pan."
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Ferenc Hörcher@HorcherF·
@ImMadhuryaC I am arguing in defence of that thesis within the ANglo-American context, from the Old Whigs to fusionism and further. In other words, as a historian of political thought, and less as a political theorist. Kekes is one of the best examples of this complex relationship.
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Madhurya Chakraborty
Madhurya Chakraborty@ImMadhuryaC·
@HorcherF I'm on the fence about the assumption, but let's say we know, e.g., Kekes had two separate books, one against liberalism, one for conservatism. I'm not learned enough on those two, but why do you think these are not either/or?
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Ferenc Hörcher@HorcherF·
"Scruton’s approach to conservatism in his final book on the subject, Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition... is more dialectical, more keen to emphasize certain affinities between conservatism and the liberalism that it aims to moderate and correct." (Mahoney) 2/2
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