Thomas Aquinas: Pinnacle to Obsolescence in 200 Years and Why It Matters
Aquinas knew there was something prior to essence and being. Western culture lost sight of it.
History
Diabolical Ontological Monism
The best description I've found about the historical, practical, and logical hell that is ontological monism is provided by Warren Carroll, The Founding of Christendom (Christendom Press, 1985).
In the first chapter, he writes about the Harappan civilization: its doctrine of reincarnation, cult of Thug stranglers, horned gods,
Dostoyevsky's Possessed in Modern Day America
"Peter Verkhovensky meet John Styn. John, Peter is the descendant of godless liberal enlightenment thinkers who now wants violence and revolution. Peter, John is the descendant of an ex-Baptist minister who likes to hug a lot."
That's what went through my mind a few years ago
The Real Transylvania
From the One Thing File
“The One Thing File” is a practice I learned from Econtalk. It's the practice of writing just one thing (okay, maybe more than one) that I learn from a book, essay, documentary, podcast, whatever.
For younger TDE readers, think of it as Reddit&
Dostoyevsky's Mock Execution
In 1849, political radicals were taken out of their jail to be executed. They were lined up in front of the firing squad. Right before the guns were fired, a courier galloped up with an imperial decree, commuting the death sentence to a term in prison camp.
The whole thing
Four reasons why the Right shouldn't be too distraught by the Capitol building violence
If you're like me, you're still embarrassed by the violent eruption at the
Capitol building last week. I know, Trump didn't directly provoke it, but those
close to him did, and Trump indirectly did.
As I mentioned yesterday [https://thedailyeudemon.com/53037/], no one
GKC on Waugh
Evelyn Waugh liked to send out satirical Christmas cards, and the apex (or nadir] of this practice was reached during the Christmas season of 1929. Waugh's card that year consisted of extracts reprinted from unfavorable reviews of his first novel, Decline and Fall. The harshest passage of all
Let's Celebrate St. Albert
(Although, to be honest, I can't hear the name "Albert" without thinking about
"Fat Albert.")
November 15th: Feast Day of St. Albert.
I've often wondered whether St. Albert was sad when his greatest student, St.
Thomas Aquinas, died before him. Together, I
The Downfall of Cecil Rhodes (11/26/2020)
Stefan Kanfer, in his book on the De Beers diamond cartel, gives Chesterton the
last word on Cecil Rhodes, who instead of promoting Western values "illustrated
almost every quality essential to the Sultan, from the love of diamonds to the
scorn of women."
The irony was, as Kanfer
New Mother Cabrini Statue Next on the Hit List
Plus More HSP, Gardening Corner, and Louis Prima
I'm impressed: New York City erected a statue of Mother Cabrini yesterday in Battery Park. I hope they put it behind a huge fence and appoint an armed guard to protect it. I mean, it's such a testament