I attended the 1997 Summer Philosophy Institute at CU-Boulder
Favorite Philosophers:
Plato
Aristotle
Saint Thomas Aquinas
The Aquinas Cafe
Thomistic Philosophy
Sir Thomas More
Hilaire Belloc
Alasdair MacIntyre
Robert P. George
Jacques Maritain(Click name for the Jacques Maritain Society)
"If it is true that the rights of men have their foundation in the natural law, which is, at the same time, the source of both duties and rights--these two notions, moreover, being correlative--it appears that a declaration of rights ought normally be completed by a declaration of the duties and the responsibilities of men towards the communities of which they are part, notably toward the family society, the civil society, and the international community."Gabriel Marcel"Since I have not space here to discuss nonsense(you can always find very intelligent philosophers to defend it most brilliantly), I am taking it for granted that you admit that there is a human nature and this human nature is the same in all men. I am taking it for granted that you also admit that man is a being gifted with intelligence, and who, as such, acts with an understanding of what he is doing, and therefore with the power to determine for himself the ends which he pursues."
"The fact remains that the State has skill and competence in administrative, legal, and political matters, but is inevitably dull and awkward--and, as a result, easily oppresive and injudicious--in all other fields."
More Quotes
Christianity and Democracy
Quotes
Gabriel Marcel Society
An Introduction to Walker Percy's Semiotic
Insights into Totalizing IdeologiesEtienne Gilson
Human Rights and Second Realities
On ScientismVogelin-inspired Essays:
The Puritaiins of Post-Modernity
The Cult of Reason and the "Murder" of God
Gnosis: The Psychological Temptation
On Methodical RealismI've also been reading lots of Alasdair MacIntyre's works recently.
Most any English guy after 1600
Nietschze
Marx, Rand and other silly materialists
Lenin: Man with a Guitar(in Russian)
Antonio GramsciThe On-Going Marxist March Against The Western Mind
Links
"Original Sin"
The Gramscian Roots of America's Culture War
Philosophers who are just plain nifty:
Kierkegaard
"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."Kierkegaard on the Internet: Anonymity vs. Commitment in the Present Age
Romano Guardini
The End of the Modern World
Undergrad people who think they know what they're talking about. (I am frequently one of them, but I find myself rarely corrected. Perhaps I give off the impression that I am a member of the Lunatic Fringe, and thus someone who would eagerly cannibalize those who correct him.)
As far as politics go: I used to believe I was a Socialist-Libertarian, a rather odd combination. But I didn't know what either Socialism or Libertarianism was, at the time. Then I learned that combination was synonymous with anarchy, which is a bad thing. And of course, when separated both tend to overzealotry.
Does Human Nature have a Future?
Modern Politics: The Conspiracy of Enlightenment
Truth and Freedom by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
T.S. Eliot on the Necessity of Christian Culture
THE END OF HISTORY AND HE LAST MAN
Religion and the Constitution
The Reappearance of Natural Law by Henrich Rommen
Can Conservatism Counter and Defeat the "Revo?"
The Last Word by Fr. Edward T. Oakes, SJ, one of my excellent professors at Regis.
Whose Justice?
The End of Convenient Sterotypes as the Inauguration of "Extraordinary Politics", an excellent piece from a Baylor professor
The Hegelian Dialectic And The New World Order
Human Personhood begins at Conception
Politics and Darwinism by Peter Singer, infamous infanticide advocate
Rationalism in Politics
Rousseau's Civil Religion
The Dewey Legend in American Education
Libertarian impulse and the Constitution
The Liberal Hegemony: The Rise of Civil Society by Thomas Molnar
The Truth Doesn't Matter: The Real Meaning of the Clinton Presidency
Utopian Stumbling Blocks on libertarianism, conservatism, economics, and much more!
Philosophical Motiviation, Historical Motivation, and Permanence of the Utopian Temptation
Erewhon, A whole bunch of argument on politics and religion, the only two things worth arguing about.
BEYOND CONSERVATISM: The Resistance Takes Shape
God in the Dock: "Bulverism"These are about my only experiences with the man, but from what I've seen his popularity is well-deserved.
Screwtape proposes a toast
The Obstinancy of Belief
We Have No Right to Happiness
WHY ARGUE ABOUT FR. MICHAEL J. BAXTER AND NOTRE DAME?
New Oxford Review
Neo-Orthodoxy, the Crisis of Authority, and the Future of the
Catholic Church in the United States
THE ABSOLUTE BENEATH THE RELATIVE Reflections on Einstein’s Theories by the ever-sharp Stanley L. Jaki
God/ess: Sounding the True Note of Revolution
Thomas Kuhn's Irrationalism
Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute
My Index on Population Control and its Eugenics connections
Dr. Russell's page at the University of California-Santa Barbara, with a good reflection on relativism
"Today he kills truth, so that tomorrow another may simply kill. That has been the pattern, even in this century. By what hubris do we believe we are immune?"
-Alan L. Keyes
Political Candidates who I like:
Alan Keyes, heads above the rest
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