Category: Philosophy
Booze Coke I don’t know if I’m surprised because it’s Coke or because it’s the first Coke product with alcohol: Coca-Cola launching its first alcoholic beverage next year. It’s going …
Toward the end of his life, Marshall McLuhan provided a list of the ten things that have changed us the most.
If the Too Much Information Age has a pagan saint, it might be Pyrrho of Ellis.
Simple observations from the medieval poster boy will give you new perspectives The famous historian Will Durant ranked Thomas Aquinas as the fourth greatest thinker of all time. When …
The philosophy of focusing on a slow and loving existence in the quiet now
One man’s crusade against a world gone loud I’m thinking the list of seven capital sins — Pride, Envy, Avarice, Anger, Sloth, Gluttony, Lust — ought to be expanded …
I’ve long been fascinated by Nietzsche, in the sense that I’ve always found him wildly wrong and wildly right, wildly reckless and wildly insightful. That being said, he’s enough …
“God is dead.” Anyone who graduated eighth grade has heard that famous Nietzsche pronouncement. It makes Christians cringe, but Nietzsche meant nothing by it. He was merely pronouncing what …
I’ve written a bit about existentialism. In all my reading on the subject (ample for a layman, little for a scholar), I’ve never seen William James referred to as …
If I had to come up with a list of books whose title makes the book sound far drier than it really is, I’d nominate Gilson’s The Spirit of …
I went to Mass once with Ralph McInerny. Well, that’s an exaggeration. My family and I were sitting in Sacred Heart Basilica at Notre Dame, just as Mass was …
We need myths. They’re irrational signposts in our strange spiritual land: they guide us even when we don’t know we’re being guided. We don’t even necessarily understand them, but …
