By Date

Here's a list of my past posts. Click the links to access them. 

April 2024

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4/22/24 - GUEST POST - "AMERICAN CONSERVATISM: A CASE IN SCHIZOPHRENIA" - INTERCOLLEGIATE REVIEW - PAUL COLE BEACH

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4/17/24 - INFINITE JEST - THE FIRST HUNDRED PAGES - DAVID FOSTER WALLACE

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4/15/24 - SOME BEGINNING PERSONAL THOUGHTS ON MASCULINITY AND FATHERHOOD

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4/12/24 - CAN I BUY ITEMS GENERATED BY SLAVE LABOR? - DISTINCTIONS IN THE TYPES OF COOPERATION IN EVIL - ARTICLE BY WILLIAM NEWTON IN HOMILETIC AND PASTORAL REVIEW

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4/5/24 - WHERE FALSE STARTING POINTS CAN LEAD - A FEW THOUGHTS ON 17TH CENTURY IDEALISM - EXCERPTS FROM "THE SEARCH AFTER TRUTH" BY NICOLAS MALEBRANCHE

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4/4/24 - "GREAT BOOKS, DEMOCRACY, AND TRUTH" - PROLOGUE TO "REFORMING EDUCATION: THE OPENING OF THE AMERICAN MIND" BY MORTIMER ADLER

March 2024

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3/26/24 - SCIENTISM AND C.S. LEWIS - "THE MAGICIAN'S TWIN" BY JOHN G. WEST

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3/22/24 - MORE ABOUT MY BOOK, "THE DRAMA OF METAPHYSICS: AN EXPLORATION INTO THE PSYCHOLOGICAL POWER OF WORLDVIEWS"

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3/22/24 - THE PROBLEM OF "EXISTENTIAL NEUTRALITY" - "ON BEING AND THE ONE" CH. 1 FROM "BEING AND SOME PHILOSOPHERS" BY ETIENNE GILSON

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3/20/24 - "LARS AND THE REAL GIRL" - A MOVIE REVIEW AND SOME PERSONAL THOUGHTS ON DEALING WITH TRAUMA

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3/20/24 - THE GROWING WAR AGAINST TELEOLOGY - SOME PERSONAL THOUGHTS

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3/18/24 - ARISTOTLE’S REJECTION OF THE COINCIDENTAL NATURE OF SUBSTANTIAL FORMS - PAPER BY STEPHEN BEACH

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3/13/24 - KAROL WOJTYLA’S RESPONSE TO 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY MATERIALIST PHILOSOPHIES OF MAN - PAPER BY STEPHEN BEACH

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3/8/24 - "THE DREAM OF A RIDICULOUS MAN" - A SHORT STORY BY FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY

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3/2/24 - ACHILLES AND HIS SON NEOPTOLEMUS - SOME PERSONAL THOUGHTS ON REJOICING IN THE FLOURISHING OF OUR CHILDREN - FROM BOOK XI OF "THE ODYSSEY" BY HOMER

February 2024

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2/21/24 - WHAT ABOUT MAN CAN BE FREE IN THE 20TH CENTURY? - CH.1 "WHAT IS A FREE MAN?" FROM "MAN AGAINST MASS SOCIETY" BY GABRIEL MARCEL

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2/7/24 - ARE WE REALLY HAPPY IN GOD? - SOME PERSONAL THOUGHTS

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2/6/24 - PERSONAL THOUGHTS ON DEVELOPING A VALUE FRAMEWORK AND LIVING A LIFE OF MEANING

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2/2/24 - THE THREE FUNDAMENTAL EPISTEMOLOGICAL CHOICES - SOME PERSONAL THOUGHTS ON THE NECESSITY OF FAITH

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2/1/24 - A LIGHT WHICH ILLUMINES AND BLINDS - CH. 2 "THE NEGATIVE ELEMENT" FROM "THE SILENCE OF ST. THOMAS" BY JOSEF PIEPER

January 2024

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1/31/24 - PARMENIDES' POEM AS A PROTO-CONCEPTION OF GOD - PRE-SOCRATIC FRAGMENTS

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1/29/24 - THE MOST PRECIOUS REAL ESTATE - SOME PERSONAL THOUGHTS ON PROTECTING CHILDREN'S MINDS

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1/26/24 - DOES MAN'S HAPPINESS CONSIST IN MONEY? - SUMMA THEOLOGIAE I-II Q2 AI BY THOMAS AQUINAS

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1/25/24 - SOMETIMES IDEAS ONLY DIE WITH THEIR GENERATION - "THE GERANIUM" BY FLANNERY O'CONNOR

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1/24/24 - HOW DOES ONE RECONCILE GOD'S PROVIDENCE AND MAN'S FREE WILL? - BOOK V FROM THE "CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY" BY BOETHIUS

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1/23/24 - THE "DE-ESSENCING" OF WORDS - FINNEGAN'S WAKE BY JAMES JOYCE AND SOME PERSONAL THOUGHTS

       2023 Posts

December 2023

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12/30/23 - HOW IS TRUTH DEFINED? - AJ AYER AND FC COPLESTON DEBATE ON THE BBC (JUNE 13TH, 1949) - PART II OF IX

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12/27/23 - "ON THE USE OF PHILOSOPHY" BY JACQUES MARITAIN - INTERESTING QUOTES

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12/08/23 - "GREEK WAYS OF THINKING" - CH. I FROM "THE GREEK PHILOSOPHERS" BY W.K.C. GUTHRIE

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12/07/23 - "AN ABSURD REASONING" PART I - "THE MYTH OF SISYPHUS" BY ALBERT CAMUS

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12/06/23 - "THE PLEASURE MACHINE" - A THOUGHT EXPERIMENT AND SOME PERSONAL THOUGHTS ON THE FOUNDATIONS OF MORALITY

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12/01/23 - ARE ALL THINGS PERMISSIBLE IN THE ABSENCE OF GOD? - EXCERPT FROM "THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV" - DOSTOYEVSKY

November 2023

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11/21/23 - WHAT IS ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY (LOGICAL POSITIVISM)? - AJ AYER AND FC COPLESTON DEBATE ON THE BBC (JUNE 13TH, 1949) - PART I OF IX

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11/15/23 - ROUSSEAUEAN THEORY - EXCERPTS FROM "THE SOCIAL CONTRACT" - BOOK I BY JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU

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11/10/23 - THE TWO PATHS OF ACTION AND CONTEMPLATION - EXCERPT FROM CH. I OF "THE HUMAN CONDITION" BY HANNAH ARENDT

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11/8/23 - AN ARGUMENT FOR THE SOUL AND GOD FROM "EXISTENTIAL DESIRE" - SOME PERSONAL THOUGHTS

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11/6/23 - WHY DID DESCARTES TURN INWARD IN THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH? - DESCARTES' "DISCOURSE ON METHOD" PART ONE

October 2023

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10/31/23 - The Search For Ultimate Causes Requires Openness To Truth - PREFATORY REMARKS TO "BEING AND SOME PHILOSOPHERS" BY ETIENNE GILSON

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10/30/23 - THE SPIRIT OF THOMISM - "THE TWOFOLD CERTITUDE" - BY ETIENNE GILSON

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10/13/23 - Design, Chance, and Randomness - Is There Teleology in Nature? - Book II of Aristotle's "Physics"

September 2023

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9/12/23 - Creation is a Relation in Being Not a Temporal Event - Pt II Ch I - "Christian Philosophy of St. Thomas" by Etienne Gilson

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9/12/23 - The Life of Socrates in Overview - "Examined Lives" by James Miller

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9/5/23 - Development of the Human Consciousness - "The Stages of Life, Modern Man in Search of a Soul" - Carl Jung

August 2023

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8/28/23 - There Is No Good In This World - "The Fall" by Albert Camus - Book Review

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8/8/23 - What is Philosophy? - Philosophy as the Darkened Room - Some Personal Thoughts

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8/2/23 - Tyrannical Authority - "In the Penal Colony" - Short Story by Franz Kafka

July 2023

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7/26/23 - Literature As Thinly Veiled Nihilistic Philosophy - A Review of "The Stranger" by Albert Camus

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7/19/23 - Wily Odysseus, Slaughter, and Restoration - "The Odyssey" Books XI - XXIV by Homer

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7/18/23 - The Battle of the Wills - Personal Thoughts on the Idea of Power in Philosophy

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7/12/23 - Cosmic Justice? - "A Good Man is Hard to Find" Short Story by Flannery O'Connor

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7/7/23 - What Happened After the Iliad Leaves Off? - "The Odyssey" Books I - X by Homer

June 2023

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6/28/23 - "Every one Belongs to Every one Else" - Ch. 3 of "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley and Some Personal Thoughts

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6/26/23 - Neo-Pavlovian Conditioning of the Children - Ch. 2 of "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

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6/25/23 - Welcome to the Human Hatchery Lab - Ch. 1 of "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

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6/20/23 - Our Vision for Our Lives - "Man Has No Nature" Excerpts from "History as System" by Jose Ortega y Gasset

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6/20/23 - The Notion of Fate in "The Iliad" - Reflecting on Books XI - XXIV - by Homer

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6/15/23 - An Overview of Hegelian Philosophy - Philosophy: A Historical Survey With Essential Readings by Fieser and Stumpf

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6/8/23 - A Few Thoughts and Reflections on Books (VI - X) The Iliad by Homer

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6/1/23 - The Iliad by Homer - Books I-V - Some Beginning Thoughts

May 2023

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5/27/23 - Persevering Through Dark Times - "Toward a Fateful Serenity" - Essay by Jacques Barzun

April 2023

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4/27/23 - Marxist Tactics of Manipulation - "Animal Farm" by George Orwell

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4/24/23 - Hegel's Pantheistic "World Spirit" - Excerpt from Hegel's "Philosophy of Right"

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4/19/23 - Some Personal Thoughts on the Contradiction of Progressive Ideas Today

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4/19/23 - Descartes' Destruction of Philosophy - Some Personal Thoughts on Descartes' "Meditations"

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4/3/23 - "Heart of a Dog" - A Hilarious Satirical Soviet Novella by Mikhail Bulgakov

March 2023

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3/23/23 - The State of Nature - Jean Jacques Rousseau's "Discourse on Inequality"

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3/10/23 - A Disappointing Second Look at Borges' "Sect of the Phoenix" - Jorge Luis Borges

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3/3/23 - What is the Identity of a Thing? - Aristotle's Four Causes - Bk II Ch III from "The Physics"

February 2023

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2/28/23 - The Watch-Tower of God's Providence - Bk. IV Ch. VI of "The Consolation of Philosophy" by Boethius

January 2023

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1/25/23 - Book Access - "The Gift of Wisdom" Ch. 16 of "Virtue Stands in the Middle" Dr. Gustafson

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1/25/23 - Book Access - "Mercy" Ch. 15 of "Virtue Stands in the Middle" Dr. Gustafson

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1/22/23 - Does Man's Happiness Consist in Power? - Summa Theologiae I-II Q2 A4 by Thomas Aquinas

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1/22/23 - The Universe Has a Face - Defending Aristotle's Notion of Immaterial Form - Some Personal Thoughts

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1/18/23 - The Conclusions of Science Can be Ghastly - "The Birthmark" - Nathanial Hawthorne

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1/11/23 - "Araby" A Short Story from James Joyce's "Dubliners"

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1/9/23 - Does Happiness Consist of Honor? - Summa Theologiae I-II Q2 A2 - Thomas Aquinas

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1/6/23 - Does Man's Happiness Consist in Money? - Summa Theologiae I-II Q2 AI by Thomas Aquinas

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1/5/23 - A Hierarchy of the Good - Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics Bk I Ch I - IV

                                     2022 Posts

December 2022

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12/24/22 - Book Access - "Charity" Ch. 14 of "Virtue Stands in the Middle" Dr. Gustafson

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12/22/22 - "Personal Life" A Humorous Short Story About Getting Old - by Mikhail Zoshchenko

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12/15/22 - Themes of Ancient Philosophy - Intro to "Introductory Readings in Ancient Philosophy" - by CDC Reeve

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12/09/22 - Personal Thoughts on Joseph Campbell's "Myths to Live By" - Ch. 1 "The Impact of Science on Myth"

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12/03/22 - Book Access - "Fear of the Lord" Ch. 13 of "Virtue Stands in the Middle" Dr. Gustafson

November 2022

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11/22/22 - Political Terminology Needs to be Rethought - Some Personal Thoughts on the Political Spectrum

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11/14/22 - Three Philosophical Stages of Life - A Brief Look at Soren Kierkegaard - Ch. 16 from "Philosophy" by Fieser and Stumpf

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11/12/22 - The Unconscious as the Realm of Transformation - Prologue of "Hero With a Thousand Faces" by Joseph Campbell

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11/12/22 - Being Admitted to the Ward - Chs. 1-4 from "Cancer Ward" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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11/6/22 - Redefining the Word "Aristocracy" in the 20th Century - Ch. 2 from "The Revolt of the Masses" by Jose Ortega y Gasset

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11/1/22 - Perpetuating the Necessary Object of Fear and Anxiety for Control - Ch. 7 "The Leaders of the Masses" by Mattias Desmet

October 2022
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10/25/22 - The Infecting Process of Mass Formation Psychosis - Ch. 6 of "The Psychology of Totalitarianism" by Mattias Desmet

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10/24/22 - "The Coming of the Masses" - Ch. 1 of "The Revolt of the Masses" by Jose Ortega y Gasset

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10/19/22 - Politicians Should Have No Monetary Incentive - Excerpt from Plato's "Republic" - Paragraphs 417-419

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10/17/22 - A Short Story on Corrupt Power - "The Empty Drum" by Leo Tolstoy

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10/15/22 - The Metaphysical Ladder of Ascent to God - A First Look at Aquinas' Essay "De Ente et Essentia"

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10/15/22 - Michel Foucault Advocates Sexual Deviency - Ch. 1 of "The History of Sexuality" by Michel Foucault

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10/08/22 - How Should A Wise Man Act? - "Three Questions" A Short Story by Leo Tolstoy

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10/06/22 - My Book Review of Part I (Chs. 1-5) of "The Psychology of Totalitarianism" by Mattias Desmet

September 2022

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9/30/22 - A Brief Look at Immanuel Kant's Moral Philosophy - "In Our Time" Episode by the BBC

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9/25/22 - Can Science be the Common Good of a Society? - Excerpt from "The Idiot" by Dostoyevsky

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9/22/22 -  A Third Defense of the Soul - Ideas are Eternal - "The Phaedo" Paragraphs 77 - 80 by Plato

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9/19/22 - A Second Defense of the Immortal Soul - Learning as Recollection - Paragraphs 73-77 from "The Phaedo" by Plato

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9/19/22 - "The Adventures of an Ape" - Soviet Satire - A Short Story by Mikhail Zoshchenko

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9/17/22 - A Summary of the First Five Chapters - "Back Over the Road" Ch. 6 of The Evolution of Deductive Theory by Gasset

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9/17/22 - "The Becoming of Opposites" - An Argument for the Immorality of the Soul - "The Phaedo" Paragraphs 70-73 - Plato

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9/16/22 - The Legend of Eleusis - Ch. 1 "The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites" by Dudley Wright

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9/15/22 - Eidos and Teleology - Ch. 1 "Graven Images: Substitutes for True Morality" by Dietrich Von Hildebrand

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9/14/22 - Some Personal Thoughts on God's Providence and Our Suffering

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9/12/22 - The Heterogenous "I" - Ch. 4 "Some Lessons in Metaphysics" by Jose Ortega y Gasset

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9/4/22 - The Importance of Preserving Culture - Ch. 1 from "The Crisis of Western Education" by Christopher Dawson

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9/1/22 - Beginning as an Existentialist Metaphysician - Lesson III - "Some Lessons in Metaphysics" by Jose Ortega y Gasset

August 2022

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8/29/22 - The Moscow Literary Society - "There Were Doings at Griboedov's" - Ch. 5 from "Master and Margarita" by Bulgakov

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8/27/22 - The Mask of Aphrodite - Some Personal Thoughts Against Pornography

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8/22/22 - "What a Principle Is" - Ch. 2 "Evolution of Deductive Theory" by Jose Ortega y Gasset

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8/21/22 - "The Chase" - Ch. 4 - from "The Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov

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8/19/22 - "The Seventh Proof" - Ch. 3 from "The Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov

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8/18/22 - A Few Personal Thoughts About the Importance of "Ritual"

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8/17/22 - The Devil Visits Moscow - "Never Talk With Strangers" - Ch. 1 from "The Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov

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8/11/22 - The Mystery of Death and the Human Psyche - "The Soul and Death" - Essay by Carl G. Jung

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8/7/22 - Struggles of a "True Believer" - An Incident at Krechetovka Station - Part I/II - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

July 2022

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7/31/22 - Primordial Battle of Fire and Ice - Nordic Creation Myths

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7/30/22 - The Secret is Revealed - Part 3/3 of "Prometheus Bound" by Aeschylus

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7/26/22 - Prometheus' Gifts to Men - Part II of "Prometheus Bound" by Aeschylus

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7/18/22 - The Nature of Infinity and Our Dependence in Being - "Metaphysics" Book II by Aristotle

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7/17/22 - Prometheus is Chained in Punishment- Opening of "Prometheus Bound" by Aeschylus

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7/11/22 - Art is the Sharing of Human Subjectivity - Excerpt from Ch. 5 of "What is Art?" by Leo Tolstoy and Some Personal Thoughts

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7/11/22 - The Eastern Origins of Nazi "History" - Intro to Himmler's Crusade by Christopher Hale

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7/5/22 - Book Access - "Hope" Ch. 12 of "Virtue Stands in the Middle" Dr. Gustafson

June 2022

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6/20/22 - Book Access - "The Gift of Knowledge" Ch. 11 of "Virtue Stands in the Middle" Dr. Gustafson

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6/19/22 - An Appointment In Berlin - Prelude to "Himmler's Crusade" by Christopher Hale

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6/14/22 - The Field of "Neurotheology," and a Few Personal Thoughts on Scientism - Intro "Neurotheology" by Andrew Newberg

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6/8/22 - The Pope's Secret War Against Hitler - Ch. 1 and 2 of "Church of Spies" by Mark Riebling

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6/6/22 - The Justification of Genocide - The Nazi Weltanschauung - "Nazism 1918 -1945" by M.J. Thornton

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6/3/22 - What Answers Can Materialism Give? - A Short Excerpt from "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy

May 2022

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5/30/22 - Concept of "the Search" in the Midst of "Everydayness" - Excerpt from "The Moviegoer" by Walker Percy

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5/23/22 - Foundations of Personalist Philosophy - Man as Substance-in-Relation - "Person and Being" by Norris Clarke S.J.

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5/17/22 - What Knowledge Does Metaphysics Seek? - Book I of Aristotle's Metaphysics

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5/16/22 - "A Stumbling Block to the Jews and Foolishness to Gentiles" - Some Personal Thoughts on Dostoyevsky's "The Idiot"

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5/15/22 - Success in Tragedy? Thoughts about Joseph Frank's "Lecture Two - The Idiot"

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5/13/22 - A Failed Novel? Dostoyevsky's "The Idiot" - "Lectures on Dostoyevsky" by Joseph Frank

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5/11/22 - A Brief Explanation of Aristotelian Logic - Excerpt from Aristotle's "Posterior Analytics" Bk II

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5/9/22 - A Light in the Darkness - Valedictory Speech 2022 Commencement - Holy Apostles College and Seminary

April 2022

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4/29/22 - The Problem of Incomplete Information - Some Personal Thoughts

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4/28/22 - The Fundamental Methods of Philosophizing - Ch. 3 "Evolution of Deductive Theory" by Jose Ortega y Gasset

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4/26/22 - Response to YouTube video "Every Argument for God DEBUNKED!" - A Few Personal Thoughts

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4/21/22 - Knowledge through the Use of Principles - Ch. 1 "The Idea of Principle in Leibnitz" by Jose Ortega y Gasset

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4/19/22 - "The Circular Ruins" A Short Story by Jorge Luis Borges

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4/18/22 - Book Access - "The Gift of Understanding" Ch. 10 of "Virtue Stands in the Middle" Dr. Gustafson

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4/16/22 - The Dichotomy of Being, The Singular and the Universal - Ch. 10 "The Evolution of Deductive Theory" by Gasset

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4/14/22 - "A First Sorrow" - Short Story by Franz Kafka

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4/14/22 - Greek Etymology of the "Concept" - Ch. 9 - The Evolution of Deductive Theory by Jose Ortega y Gasset

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4/12/22 - The Existential Shock of Random Acts of Terror - Ch. 1 "The Gulag Archipelago" by Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn

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4/10/22 - Who Controls the Interpretation of Reality? - "A Hunger Artist" Short Story by Franz Kafka

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4/9/22 - The Temptation of "Secret Knowledge" - The Sect of the Phoenix - A Short Story by Jorge Borges

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4/8/22 - "Marriage in God's Plan" - 1602 - 1620 - Catechism of the Catholic Church

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4/7/22 - Book Access - "Faith" Ch. 9 of "Virtue Stands in the Middle" Dr. Gustafson

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4/5/22 - Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious - Paragraphs 1 - 43 - Carl G. Jung

March 2022

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3/28/22 - "The Judgment" - A Story About Abuse - by Franz Kafka

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3/23/22 - The Merciful Limitations of Human Perception - "Funes, the Memorious" - A Short Story By Jorge Luis Borges

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3/23/22 - The Human Experience is One of Pilgrimage - The "Status Viatoris" - Ch. 1 of "On Hope" by Josef Pieper

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3/22/22 - Book Access - "The Theological Virtues" Ch. 8 of "Virtue Stands in the Middle" Dr. Gustafson

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3/18/22 - The Psychology of the Shadow - Dostoyevsky's Novella "The Double"

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3/18/22 - Aquinas' Four Types of Law - Summa Theologiae Prima Secundae - Questions 90 - 95

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3/11/22 - Book Access - "Humility" Ch. 7 of "Virtue Stands in the Middle" Dr. Gustafson

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3/10/22 - No Easy Day - Personal Thoughts on "Hercules Must Choose Between Virtue and Vice" - Xenophon's Memorabilia

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3/8/22 - Mary at the Foot of the Cross - "Stabat Mater" - A Literal Translation by GPQ

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3/2/22 - Book Access - "The Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit" Ch. 6 of "Virtue Stands in the Middle" Dr. Gustafson

February 2022

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2/27/22 - Nihilism as Worldview - Ch.1 (part I) of "Beyond Good and Evil" by Friedrich Nietzsche

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2/27/22 - The Philosophical Search for God - Book Summary and Analysis of "God and Philosophy" by Etienne Gilson

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2/24/22 - "I Will Tear Down My Barns" - Knowing St. Basil the Great of Caesarea

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2/23/22 - Book Access - "The Vices" Ch. 5 of "Virtue Stands in the Middle" Dr. Gustafson

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2/21/22 - What is Most Real? - Some Personal Thoughts on Zeno's Paradoxes

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2/7/22 - Book Access - "The Role of the Virtues in the Christian Life" Ch. 4 of "Virtue Stands in the Middle" Dr. Gustafson

January 2022

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1/30/22 - The Meaning of Religious Ritual and Metaphor - Some Personal Thoughts on Ch. 1 "Thou Art That" by Joseph Campbell

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1/30/22 - Book Access - "An Overview of the Virtues" Ch. 3 of "Virtue Stands in the Middle" by Dr. Christopher Gustafson STD

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1/28/22 - Transhumanism and Suicide Pods ... What's the Connection? - Personal Thoughts from Dostoyevsky's "The Possessed"

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1/27/22 - Design or Chance? - Plato's "Philebus" paragraphs 28b - 30d

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1/22/22 - Book Access - "Lady Virtue" Ch. 2 of "Virtue Stands in the Middle" by Dr. Christopher Gustafson STD

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1/22/22 - A Desire for a Primitive Age - Gods and Beasts, The Nazis and the Occult - Ch. 2 by Dusty Sklar

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1/21/22 - A Teetering German Society and the Revival of the Ancient Germanic Spirit - Ch. 1 "The Nazis and the Occult" Dusty Sklar

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1/20/22 - Was Atheist Communism a Type of Religion? - "Atheism as Weltanschauung" from "Does God Exist?" by Hans Kung

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1/18/22 - Why Does Philosophy Exist? - Ch. 28 "The Evolution of Deductive Theory" Jose Ortega y Gasset

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1/17/22 - Why Philosophize in a World of Technology? - Book Review and Analysis - "In Defense of Philosophy" by Josef Pieper

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1/16/22 - "The Secret Miracle" - A Short Story on the Nature of Time and Consciousness by Jorge Luis Borges

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1/16/22 - Book Access - "A Forgotten World" Ch. 1 of "Virtue Stands in the Middle" by Dr. Christopher Gustafson STD

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1/13/22 - Science at the Service of Aryan Mysticism - "Occult History of the Third Reich" - Documentary

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1/10/22 - The Abandonment of Tradition - Ch. 9 "The Origin of Philosophy" by Jose Ortega y Gasset

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1/10/22 - Unsolved Questions in Aristotle's Work - Some (Incomplete) Personal Thoughts

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1/7/22 - The Soil and Sub-Soil of Our Ideas and Worldview - Ch. 8 "The Origin of Philosophy" - Jose Ortega y Gasset

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1/6/22 - The Religious, Philosophical, and Narrative World - Ch. 7 from "The Origin of Philosophy" by Jose Ortega y Gasset

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1/5/22 - The Return to Paganism in 19th and 20th Century Germany - A Documentary on the Origin of Nazi Belief

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1/2/22 - The Beauty of Ultimate Truths - A Few Personal Thoughts

2021 Posts

December 2021

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12/30/21 - The Soviet Destruction of Man's Spirit - Book Review - "A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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12/24/21 - The Philosophical Vocation - Plato's "Apology" Paragraphs 20-24 - and Some Personal Thoughts

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12/17/21 - The Predictability of Human "Progress" - "On Violence" - Ch. 1 by Hannah Arendt

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12/16/21 - The Philosopher Practices for Death - Plato's Phaedo - Paragraph 63 -70

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12/15/21 - Is Radical Subjectivity a Path to Happiness? - "Existentialism is a Humanism" - Jean Paul Sartre

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12/11/21 - Some Personal Thoughts on "Tree of Life" movie, Directed by Terrence Malick

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12/2/21 - The Darwinian Foundations of Hitler's Racism - Excerpt from Mein Kampf

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12/1/21 - The Marxian Rejection of Logic and Human Nature - "Theses on Feuerbach" - Karl Marx

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12/1/21 - We Must Tear Down the Old Order - "Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right" by Karl Marx

November 2021

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11/29/21 - Finding Happiness in the Natural Law? - "Personal Participation in the Thomistic Account of Natural Law" - Catherine Peters

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11/27/21 - Thomas Aquinas' Notions of Personhood - "Thomistic Personalism" - Karol Wojtyla

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11/25/21 - The Atheistic Destruction of Man - "The Dissolution of Man" - The Drama of Atheist Humanism - Henri De Lubac

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11/22/21 - Establishing the Basis for Authentic Human Inter-Subjectivity - "Participation or Alienation" by Karol Wojtyla

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11/19/21 - The Arithmetic of Moral Decisions - Excerpt from Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment" Part I - Ch. VI

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11/16/21 - The "Will to Life" as the "Will to Power" - Excerpt from "Beyond Good and Evil" by Fredrich Nietzsche

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11/15/21 - An Overview of Kantian Philosophy Part I - Ch. 13 Philosophy: A Historical Survey With Essential Readings

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11/09/21 - The Fundamental Human Story, Confronting the Dragon of Chaos - Lecture by Jordan Peterson

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11/09/21 - Am I Simply a "Thinking Thing"? - Meditation 2 from Rene Descartes

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11/08/21 - A Thomistic Look at Free Will - "St. Thomas and the Causes of Free Choice" by Lawrence Dewan

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11/05/21 - "What is Enlightenment?" - Analysis of Immanuel Kant's Essay

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11/02/21 - The Original Philosophical Question - "What Is It?" - More Personal Thoughts

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11/01/21 - Are Man-Made Stories More Seductive Than Reality? "Tlon Uqbar Orbis Tertius" - A Short Story by Jorge Borges

October 2021

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10/27/21 - Does Perception Affect Reality? - Berkeley's Idealism - Excerpts from "Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous"

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10/25/21 - Is There Really a Separation Between the Mind and the World? Critiquing Descartes "Meditations" - A Few Personal Thoughts

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10/21/21 - Beginning the Descent Into Rationalism - "Meditation 1" - Meditations on First Philosophy - Rene Descartes

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10/20/21 - Teaching or Indoctrination? "Aquinas and His Understanding of Teaching and Learning" by Jānis Ozoliņš

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10/15/21 - "Homo Homini Lupus - Man is a Wolf to Man" - Chs. 1-3, 5 from "De Cive" by Thomas Hobbes

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10/13/21 - What Sets Humans Apart from Chimps? - "Humans And Apes: On Whether Language Usage..." by Marie George

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10/8/21 - The Tactics of Politicians - Excerpts from Chs. 1, 15 -19, from "The Prince" by Niccolo Machiavelli

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10/7/21 - The Duality of Reality - Ch. 6 of "The Origin of Philosophy" by Jose Ortega y Gasset

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10/4/21 - "Meditation on the Majesty of God" - Poem by 18th Century Russian poet, Mikhail Lomonosov

September 2021

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9/30/21 - Aquinas on Monarchy - Bk I - Ch. 15 & 16 from "De Regno" by Thomas Aquinas

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9/29/21 - The Ontology of Personhood - "Abortion in the Universal Encyclopedia of Philosophy" by Marek Czachorowski

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9/27/21 - Ideology and Terror: A Novel Form of Government - Ch. 13 "The Origins of Totalitarianism" by Hannah Arendt

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9/22/21 - Happiness and Virtue Theory - Ch. I and II of the Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle

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9/22/21 - A New Conception of Being and Personhood - "Person, Being, and St. Thomas" - Norris Clarke SJ

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9/21/21 - The Noble Lie and the Myth of the Metals - Plato's Republic

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9/20/21 - The Birth of the Social Contract - Plato's "Crito"

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9/17/21 - Does Truth Begin in the Senses or in the Mind? - A Few Personal Thoughts

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9/15/21 - A Look at St. Thomas' Fourth Proof for God - Summa Theologiae (PP, QII, AIII, I Answer That)

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9/15/21 - The Story of Gyges' Invisibility Ring and the Nature of Justice - Plato's "Republic"

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9/14/21 - A Look at St. Thomas Aquinas' Third Proof for the Existence of God - Summa Theologiae I, QII, AIII, I Answer That

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9/14/21 - The Philosophical Method of Karol Wojtyla - by The Polish Christian Philosophy in the 20th Century

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9/9/21 - What is the Origin of Morality? - Plato's "Euthyphro"

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9/9/21 - "Conversation With the Supplicant" - A Short Story by Franz Kafka

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9/8/21 - A Helpful Outline for Aquinas' First Three Ways to God in the Summa Theologiae

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9/7/21 - Plato's "Myth of Er" - A Story of the Afterlife - Excerpt from Plato's "Republic"

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9/7/21 - The Nature of "Wisdom" in Aquinas' Thought - "Wisdom Transformed by Love" - Thomas Hibbs

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9/2/21 - The "Divided Line" and the Four Stages of Truth from Plato's "Republic"

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9/2/21 - An Argument for the Immorality of the Soul - Excerpt from Plato's "Phaedo"

August 2021

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8/31/21 - "Soviet Terror: A New Stalinism Emerging?" - Triumph Magazine - Paul Cole Beach

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8/31/21 - The Allegory of the Cave - Plato's "Republic"

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8/29/21 - The Sophists - Ch. 2 "Philosophy: a Historical Survey" by James Fieser

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8/25/21 - "Aletheia," the Search for Truth - Ch. 5 The Origin of Philosophy by Jose Ortega y Gasset

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8/24/21 - Who Were the Pre-Socratics and Why Were They Important? - "Philosophy: A Historical Survey" by James Fieser

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8/20/21 - The Role of Philosophy in Human Life, "Know Thyself" - Introduction to Fides et Ratio by Pope John Paul II

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8/12/21 - How to Weaponize a Population - Origins of Totalitarianism Ch.3 from Hannah Arendt

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8/8/21 - "Critique of the Hegelian Dialectic and Philosophy as a Whole" - Karl Marx

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8/4/21 - The Unity of Philosophy - Ch. 4 The Origin of Philosophy by Jose Ortega y Gasset

July 2021

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7/31/21 - Aquinas on the Necessity of the Incarnation - Compendium of Theology 198-201

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7/29/21 - A System of Values Through Science? - Experience and Nature Ch. 10 - John Dewey

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7/23/21 - Aquinas on the Trinity - Compendium of Theology Questions 36-42, and 50-56

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7/22/21 - Is a Scientific Morality Possible? Two 20th Century Perspectives (Video)

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7/19/21 - The Four Types of Reason - Aristotle Topics - Parts I - XIII

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7/19/21 - How Do We Know Something "Scientifically"? - Aristotle's Prior Analytics Bk. 1 - Ch 1-7

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7/12/21 - How Are We Able To Speak About God? - Aquinas' Compendium of Theology Chs. 21-27

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7/11/21 - Defining "Dialectical Series" - Ch. 3 The Origin of Philosophy by Jose Ortega y Gasset

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7/11/21 - About This Blog

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7/8/21 - Subjectivity as the First Solution for "Disorientation" - Ch 2. Some Lesson In Metaphysics by Jose Ortega y Gasset

June 2021

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6/29/21 - Aspects of Reality Versus the Entirety - Ch. 2 The Origin of Philosophy by Jose Ortega y Gasset

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6/27/21 - The Philosophical Past as Road Map - Ch. 1 - The Origin of Philosophy by Jose Ortega y Gasset

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6/14/21 - An Orientating Story - Ch. 1 - Some Lessons in Metaphysics by Jose Ortega y Gasset

May 2021

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5/4/21 - A Scientific Morality? Exploring the Possibility in the Thought of Jose Ortega y Gasset and John Dewey

April 2021

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4/30/21 - A Shared Epistemology: The Human Pathology of Totalitarianism in the Thought of Hannah Arendt

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4/22/21 - "The Great Tradition and the Nature of Totalitarianism" Lecture by Hannah Arendt

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4/19/21 - Totalitarianism - Lecture at Oberlin College - Hannah Arendt 

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4/5/21 - The Problem of Perception Part II - Ch. 5 - "The Philosophy of Knowledge" by Kenneth Gallagher

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4/2/21 - Annotated Bibliography - Epistemology Project

March 2021

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3/30/21 - The Point of Departure - Ch. 3 from "The Philosophy of Knowledge" by Kenneth Gallagher 

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3/23/21 - Dostoyevsky on the Nature of Faith - from The Brothers Karamazov 

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3/19/21 - Excerpt 2 on the Death Penalty from The Idiot

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3/15/21 - "The Status of Knowing" - Ch. 1 from "The Philosophy of Knowledge" by Kenneth T Gallagher 

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3/11/21 - "Object and Meaning" - Ch. 1 from "Maps of Meaning" by Jordan Peterson 

February 2021

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2/26/21 - Excerpt 1 on the Death Penalty from The Idiot 

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2/24/21 - Some Personal Thoughts on Lying - Excerpt from "The Brothers Karamazov" by F. Dostoyevsky

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2/23/21 - The Object of Philosophy as the Universe - Ch. 4 of "What Is Philosophy?" by Jose Ortega y Gasset

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2/18/21 - "Hi, I'm Atom" - A Satirical Poem of Materialism Based on "Money is King" from the Carmina Burana

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2/18/21 - Critiquing the Atheist Humanist Manifesto

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2/13/21 - Arguments Against Materialism - Ch. 3 from "What is Philosophy?" by Jose Ortega y Gasset 

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2/5/21 - How to Destroy a Country in Four Easy Steps

January 2021

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1/25/21 - Faith in the Intelligibility of Being - A Response to Humean Skepticism

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1/17/21 - A First Attempt at the Nature of Philosophy from an Existentialist - Ch. 2 of "What is Philosophy?" by Jose Ortega y Gasset

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1/15/21 - Interpreting Violence in the Book of Joshua through Wisdom Chapter 12

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1/14/21 - Perspectivism and the Understanding of History - Ch. 1 of "What is Philosophy by Jose Ortega y Gasset 

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1/13/21 - What is the Definition of "Science?" - Some Personal Thoughts

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