Category: Philosophy
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 …
“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 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? …
“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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …