Friday, May 7, 2021

Whether naps are necessary for salvation

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Objection 1: It would seem that naps are not necessary for salvation. Salvation consists in becoming like God. God is most actual. Hence, we...
Tuesday, May 4, 2021

Hadjadj on the Eucharistic origins of modern science

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"one can assume [(faire l'hypothèse)] . . . that the ultimate [(la plus grande)] attention to the real, including material [reality...
Sunday, May 2, 2021

The State places the fertile at the service of the infertile in order to assure for the latter an artificial posterity

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      "Finally, we can learn from the Jewish tradition yet another lesson:  to place no confidence in the State, such as it is, nor in ...

Resisting the temptation to construct a university of the good

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"The worst temptation in the matter of education consists in dreaming of a school that would guarantee that its students do not later b...
Thursday, April 29, 2021

They love [the truth] when it shines, they hate it when it reproves.

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"Amant eam [(veritatem)] lucentem, oderunt eam redarguentem."      St. Augustine, Confessions X.xxiii.34.  Lit., They love [the tr...

"We are spoiled children, we who can allow ourselves to play with the idea of truth because we are not forced to lie."

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      Rémi Brague, Moderately modern, trans. Paul Seaton (South Bend, IN:  St. Augustine's Press, 2019), 149.  And yet we are, in subtle...
Monday, April 26, 2021

"When one does not know the truth of a thing, it is good that there be a common error that fixes the mind of men"

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"Lorsqu’on ne sait pas la vérité d’une chose, il est bon qu’il y ait une erreur commune qui fixe l’esprit des hommes. . . ." Trans...
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