Professions and Guilds in an Organic Society

ORGANIC SOCIETY

Professions & Guilds

	The Simple Elites of the People A family’s permanence in a job during centuries brings glory to it
	All Classes Should Have Elites How elites were born in the medieval guilds
	The Family: Vital Principle of the Guilds The spirit of family imbued all the institutions of a society
	Rocking Horses for One Generation after Another Nourishing the taste for excellence & the marvelous
	When Men and Affairs of Commerce Were Placid A look at the medieval guild houses & the men who worked in them
	Two Ways of Seeing Country Life One inspired by the Catholic Church, the other by the Revolution
	Medieval Paternalism & Progressivist Neo-Slavery Comparing the medieval guilds to the modern labor system
	The Three Orders of Medieval Society All social classes participate in the government of an organic society
	A Missing Bourgeois Elite Failure of the monetary class to develop its own organic elite
	The Role of Economy in the Collapse of the Medieval Mentality Moral factors that change the structure of local economies
	The Decay of the Medieval Guilds The virus of an unbridled Capitalism accompanied by a change in mentalities
	Mittenwald and Its Violins An ambience conducive to sublimity and art
	Leadership: Established by Generosity & Gratitude, Not a Social Contract Critique of the modern conception of power born from an exchange of interests
	Respectability in the Medieval Professions The veneration of the people for Bishops, Kings & heads of guilds
	Groups of Friends and Guilds How friendships form and develop in organic society