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Eric Scheske

Why David Hume is Important

💡Within 100 years, the Cartesians used impeccable logic derived from Descartes' I think there I am to reach two conclusions: there is no earthly agent of movement and there is no matter. There is only God and mind. Hume yanked God and mind out of these conclusions and the

The Gnostic is a Believer

Part III of an Analysis of Eric Voegelin's Six Gnostic Traits

150 Years that Shook Europe

The years 1309 through 1453 made Europe redefine itself.

If You Meet the Buddha, Kill Him

J.D. Salinger hit the jackpot in 1951. At age 32, he published The Catcher in the Rye, a novel about an alienated teenager named “Holden Caulfield,” and it became an immediate bestseller. He was a success. But the novel met with considerable resistance from parents who thought it was

Do You Have a Totalitarian Impulse?

Drinking with friends and the Diocletian Test Do you have a totalitarian impulse? Ask yourself: "Do I think the government's goals or aims should take priority over human nature?" Put another way: "Do I think the government's noble end justifies a bad means?

When Western Civilization Submitted Itself to a Lobotomy

Descartes' dualism was obviously wrong, but it won over western civilization.

Descartes Praised Lycurgus. It’s Our Earliest Glimpse of the Problem with Modernist Thinking

There’s a direct line between Descartes’ admiration for Lycurgus and modernity’s parade of love affairs with strong leaders who would use rationality to impose their subjective reality on the world.

An Unjust Law is No Law at All

Photo by Kindel Media on Pexels.com [https://www.pexels.com/photo/hand-of-a-person-with-handcuffs-7773264/]It has become something of a habit in both the American and Canadian media to insist that the Canadian trucker protest against vaccine mandates is an "illegal protest." They

A Dozen Quotes from Prometheus Bound: A Play about Spiritual Disease

Prometheus' proud defiance of the divine order made him into a raving maniac. He lost his connection to the Tao: the transcendental router.

The Secret Life of Philip Rieff

By Blake Smith, at The Tablet