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Eric Scheske

Eric Scheske

Monday

I have a few contemporary things to discuss, so today's Eudemon will revert to the traditional TDE style. * * * * * * * Received in the mail: The Tumbler of God: Chesterton as Mystic by Fr. Robert Wild. I'm looking forward to reading it. From the back cover: Franz Kafka said

Friday

BYCU If you haven't spent a lot of time with Zmirak's Bad Catholic series, you're missing out. The material is flat-out brilliant. Content, prose, humor: it's all there. I expect to draw a lot of BYCU material from Zmirak, including this

William James

I've always meant to read more William James or, failing more by James, more about James (“Do not read history. Read biography for it is life without theory.” Disraeli). Early on, I read his Varieties of Religious Experience [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James#Philosophy_of_religion]

GKC

Background: When I was the editor of Gilbert Magazine [http://www.chesterton.org/explore-the-acs/gilbertmagazine/], I was responsible for the "Tremendous Trifles" column. It was occasionally hard to find a sufficient amount of interesting GKC material to fill the page, so John Peterson sent me a

De Lubac and Dostoyevsky

If you're intrigued by Dostoyevsky but can't bring yourself to read any of his lengthy fiction, get a copy of Henri de Lubac's The Drama of Atheist Humanism. It ranks in my top 10 books of all time. The reader will be rewarded with

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 that metaphysics stifled science for centuries, just as science today stifles metaphysics. Empiricism is the belief that only those

Give a Girl a Break

My electronic friend, Michelle Reitemeyer, recently had to abandon Blogger. Some of you may recall that I came close to such a decision myself. It's hard to abandon electronic real estate that you've developed over years, but Michelle felt like she had no other choice, given

Friday

That's a picture of a bowling alley at the Atlantic Garden Saloon in Sandusky, Ohio, toward the turn of the century. I've spent a lot of time in bowling alleys (season high average winner, with a 112, in fifth grade). In every bowling alley, there are

GKC

Background: When I was the editor of Gilbert Magazine [http://www.chesterton.org/explore-the-acs/gilbertmagazine/], I was responsible for the "Tremendous Trifles" column. It was occasionally hard to find a sufficient amount of interesting GKC material to fill the page, so John Peterson sent me a

Socrates

And Taleb "Socrates required of astronomy, if it was to be true science, that it should show why it was best that the sun and moon should be as they are." Santayana (emphasis in original). I suspect Nassim Taleb would have fun with that passage. Not with Santayana