Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Descartes on the stupefied admiration

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"But more often we wonder too much rather than too little, as when we are astonished in looking at things which merit little or no co...
Sunday, January 28, 2018

Aquinas on the unicity of truth

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"there are indeed different and distinct domains of enquiry, each with its own standards for distinguishing the true from the false.  M...

"the disagreement between theistic and non-theistic cultures is not only a disagreement about God, it is also and perhaps as fundamentally a disagreement about intelligibility."

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     Alisdair MacIntyre, God, philosophy, universities:  a selective history of the Catholic philosophical tradition (Lanham, MD:  Rowman ...
Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Ask, seek, knock

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     "If, as H. Gouhier once remarked, the philosophy of Malebranche is one long systematic meditation on the various attributes of Go...
Sunday, January 21, 2018

"the [idolatrous] thrill of the shadow of nothingness"

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Department of Theology, University of Notre Dame "the great attraction of Heidegger's path" isn't just the attraction ...
Saturday, January 20, 2018

Losing one's life as distinguished from saving it

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Biblical "sexuality is not . . . an expression of an absolute power, but of relationship, the gift to the other, and reciprocal depen...

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Biblical "sexuality is not . . . an expression of an absolute power, but of relationship, the gift to the other, and reciprocal depende...