souls and peoples, wherever we may be, may adapt and make our own the pledge and spirit found in the salutary Preamble of the 1937 Irish Constitution which once restored* the Holy Trinity to absolute centrality and ultimacy, above all mere politics, for all humankind: “In the Name of… ...
The Abolition of Man, a book on education and moral values by C.S. Lewis, published in 1943. The book originated as the Riddell Memorial Lectures, three lectures delivered at the University of Durham in February 1943. Many people regard this as Lewis’s
Science is the methodical pursuit and utilization of knowledge and understanding concerning the natural and social spheres, employing a systematic approach grounded in empiricism. The genesis of Modern Science lies in purposefullydisavowing religious orthodoxy, traditional knowledge systems, and the meta...
K. Chesterton who regarded all objects interesting at right angles as proofs of the truth of Christianity. Your affection for the book is evident, and I much appreciate it ... I also agree with many isolated judgement——e.g. the approximation of Godbole and Mrs. Moore, and my failure ...
It is only in the eighteenth century, in "civil society" that the various forms of social connection confront the individual as mere means for his private ends, as external necessity. But the epoch which produces this standpoint, namely, that of the page 10 isolated individual, is precisely ...
adjudicates against the latter as mere relics of the past and can only conceive of material relations and causality in representational terms, as co-relative to our self-positing powers. Such a conception is responsible for our present inability to think the role of radical claims, thick attachme...
For one thing, if the slight improvements of incentives that are imagined were so efficacious, they would have been so on the many other occasions in which societies improved a bit, doubling per person real income, say, such as Song China or Imperial Rome. For another, if mere incentives ...
For the most part, D'Souza has attempted to argue on the atheists' own terms, that is, on the basis of reason, science, and evidence. He has tried to demonstrate that one need not accept Christianity on blind faith; one can accept it based on the facts. This characterization, ho...
What remains is mere individualism; “everyone has ‘his own little separate system.’ [from Emile]” p. 117 “This continual shifting of the sands in our desert—separation from places, persons, beliefs—produces the psychic state of nature where reserve and timidity are the prevailing ...
Gass’s depiction of Christianity as superstitious, ignorant, and evil. It shows that his view is based on a caricature (that is, God as a quasi-gnostic Demiurge) of the Christian understanding of God and evil and totally ignores and misses the contributions of (what I call) the Classical...