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Zoltán Pető

Zoltán Pető is a historian of ideas, currently working as a research fellow at the Thomas Molnar Institute for Advanced Studies at the National University of Public Service in Budapest. His research interests include conservative political philosophy from the end of the 18th century to the present day. He wrote his PhD thesis on the political theory of Erik Maria Ritter von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, soon to be published as a book. His main area of interest is German conservative political thought in the 20th century.
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Zoltán Pető

Zoltán Pető is a historian of ideas, currently working as a research fellow at the Thomas Molnar Institute for Advanced Studies at the National University of Public Service in Budapest. His research interests include conservative political philosophy from the end of the 18th century to the present day. He wrote his PhD thesis on the political theory of Erik Maria Ritter von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, soon to be published as a book. His main area of interest is German conservative political thought in the 20th century.
The Birthday of Plato Celebrated in the Villa di Careggi by Lorenzo the Magnificent by Luigi Mussini (1862)

The Intellectual and the Conservative

‘Before the corrosive spirit of purely rational analysis without synthesis became widespread, societies were conservative because they perceived the non-variable essence behind phenomena not only through their most eminent intellectuals
Resurrection of Jean-Jacques Rousseau by Christian Gottlieb Geissler (1794)

Political Religion and Democracy

Paradoxically, it seems that democracy can only sustain itself and protect itself from collapse, (tyranny and chaos) precisely by what is not democratic in it. It seems that it is
Cover of László Ottlik’s 1922 book titled The Social Theory of Marxism.

László Ottlik and the Traditions of Hungarian Political Thought

Political philosophy that is clearly separated from legal philosophy could not really take root in Hungary either in the Renaissance or in the 18th–19th centuries. Outstanding experiments such as certain

God and the Philosopher: The Theology of Thomas Molnar

‘The duality of God and man is the most fundamental reality of existence: a reality which can structure and constitute all relations of human beings. This principal duality is the
Thomas Molnár (left) and Russell Kirk with their wives in New York in 1965.

The Contexts of Thomas Molnar — A Conference in Budapest

In his short speech introducing the international conference, head of the Thomas Molnar Research Institute, historian of political thought Károly Attila Molnár highlighted that as a Hungarian emigrant, Thomas Molnar
A dialectic materialism class at the Victor Babeş (today Babeş-Bolyai) University in Cluj-Napoca (Kolozsvár) in 1951.

The Three Phases of Materialism

‘When Marx explained the philosophical foundations of dialectical materialism, he first of all referred to the “development of the natural sciences”, just as the representatives of today’s New Atheist movements

The Problem with Contemporary Liberalism

‘The term “liberal” was undoubtedly originally associated with the aristocratic spirit of freedom and generosity (in Latin: liberalitas), which, recognizing a natural hierarchy among individual beings, finds diversity welcome and

Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens from a Conservative Viewpoint  

‘Transhumanism—at least in the form in which it is represented and explained by Harari—stands, above all, on the ground of anti-religion. The mechanical man, who becomes immortal, as the meaning
Béla Hamvas as a factory worker.

Béla Hamvas and the Critique of ‘Science–Religion’ 

Hamvas’ focus on metaphysical questions in the field of philosophy did not simply stem from his belief in God or his religious predisposition, but rather from this critical attitude towards
Picture of Zoltán Pető

Zoltán Pető

Zoltán Pető is a historian of ideas, currently working as a research fellow at the Thomas Molnar Institute for Advanced Studies at the National University of Public Service in Budapest. His research interests include conservative political philosophy from the end of the 18th century to the present day. He wrote his PhD thesis on the political theory of Erik Maria Ritter von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, soon to be published as a book. His main area of interest is German conservative political thought in the 20th century.
Picture of Zoltán Pető

Zoltán Pető

Zoltán Pető is a historian of ideas, currently working as a research fellow at the Thomas Molnar Institute for Advanced Studies at the National University of Public Service in Budapest. His research interests include conservative political philosophy from the end of the 18th century to the present day. He wrote his PhD thesis on the political theory of Erik Maria Ritter von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, soon to be published as a book. His main area of interest is German conservative political thought in the 20th century.

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