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 …
Category: Philosophy
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 …
Socrates
God and Philosophy
I try to be judicious in my book annotations, but every so often, I find a book that has more passages underlined than not. Schumacher’s A Guide for the …
Wednesday
Wednesday
Family Guy I’ve been reading some Nock. Albert Jay Nock, one of the premier American essayists of the early twentieth century and one of the founders of modern conservative/libertarian …
Thursday
Nockian Corner I mentioned last week that I was in the process of comparing the political theories of Orestes Brownson and Albert Jay Nock. Someone could, with disturbing insight, …
Tuesday
The Philosophical Life A rambling little piece Alex is a Freshman at the University of Michigan. He’s taking “Introduction to Philosophy,” and he’s really digging it. I guess he …
Tuesday
From the Notebooks Allegations of Brownson’s inconsistencies in later years are often misplaced. Recent biographer R.A. Herrera, for instance, alleges that Brownson’s view on the democratic revolution that was …
Monday
New Book Many years ago, I was drawn to Martin Buber and Max Picard. Buber, I met in an Alpena, Michigan, bookstore, picking up his I and Thou for …