Twelve Aquinas Aphorisms
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 …
Category: Philosophy
It’s Time We Recognize Noise as the Eighth Capital Sin
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 …
Thursday
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 …
De Lubac and Nietzsche
“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 …
James the Existentialist
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 …
More Gilson
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 …
Ralph McInerny
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 …
On Deliberate Barbarism
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 …
PoS
Look Homewrad, America: In Search of Reactionary Radicals and Front-Porch Anarchists by Bill Kauffman. If there’s been a better book for promoting the Principle of Subsidiarity in the past …
Gilson
“The human mind feels shy before a reality of which it can form no proper concept.” Etienne Gilson, God and Philosophy. Too many Christians, of course, know no such …
Voegelin and Pressure
Voegelin with a Nock Kicker History, said Voegelin, is “the perpetual task to regain the order under God from the pressure of mundane existence.” That’s the science of history? …
More Gilson and God and Philosophy
“Just as science can play havoc with metaphysics, metaphysics can play havoc with science.” Gilson There is a natural antipathy between the two. Gilson goes on to point out …