Saturday, March 6, 2010

Mozart didn't hear it "as it were, all at once"?

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"I had no idea, until I read Peter Hacker's review of my book Selves: an essay in revisionary metaphysics (January 22), that the l...
Friday, March 5, 2010

Bowman on Avatar

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"What [Yoon] means is that the feelings of discovery and delight and, on leaving the theater, nostalgia that even ordinary moviegoers a...
Tuesday, March 2, 2010

In necessariis unitas, in non necessariis libertas, in utrisque caritas (Marco Antonio De Dominis, 1617). Cf. In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas (and other variants). English: "In essentials unity. . . ."

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The earliest known occurrence of this so far is to my knowledge once again "Catholic", if somewhat dubiously so, given that the Di...
Monday, March 1, 2010

The poor and the wretched I can handle, but the irksome?

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“O God almighty and tender-hearted, . . . “Forgive us, [we] who have disregarded the presence of your Christ in the poor, the wretched, and...

"'a modern classic. . . . impervious to technical change'"

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"OUP has taken to touting the [now] heavily discounted sixty-five-volume hard-copy ODNB as 'a modern classic . . . impervious to t...
Sunday, February 28, 2010

Butterfield on Moral judgments in history

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"Behind everything, and notwithstanding something like a cosmic scheme of good and evil in conflict, the whig historian has found it po...
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Saturday, February 27, 2010

Rahner on Mt 27:52 ff.

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"The heart of the earth has accepted and received the Son of God; and it is from a womb so consecrated, this womb of the 'hellish...