Besides recent events in Chicago, this video has been making rounds on the internet:
It’s interesting to see how most people today need and require physical experience or demonstration before believing something, when knowledge about a things nature is a suitable guide.
If you are interested in philosophy and there is one book that you must buy in the coming weeks….it is this it:
Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction (Editiones Scholasticae)
Feser has done a great job in the past explaining complex
I know this isn't news to any of the readers of this blog, but I thought it was important to post articles that fit right in with the purpose of my writing here. My emphasis is bold and comments blue Why
In the so-called “Enlightenment” the classical view of the world was DIVIDED. Two main movements formed which fed off of each other, leaving us with the intense debate we have today:
Fideism (Faith)
“Faith must trample
Some of you may have heard of the book by Edward Feser called “The Last Superstition”. If you have not read it, read it. It is definitely in my top 3 favorite books of all time.
Why? I wish
For those of the more academic bent, please consider reading Étienne Gilson' book “Thomist Realism and the Critique of Knowledge” (Réalisme thomiste et critique de la connaissance, Vrin, 1939.). As my friend said, it's “drop everything” good!
Here's a related video:
From the left: Nietzsche, Marx, Russell, Kant, DescartesFrom the right: G.K. Chesterton, Aquinas, Cicero, C.S. Lewis, Plato
I thought I would take the opportunity to explain what my bold modification
“True law is right reason in agreement with nature ; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting; it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from
wrongdoing by its prohibitions…It is a sin to try to alter
From the Cardinal Newman Society:
The Faithful Catholic College Boom
It’s springtime for faithful Catholic colleges in America, the National Catholic Register is reporting, with an emphasis on those featured in The Newman Guide to Choosing a Catholic College.
For a variety