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The Sophist takes refuge in the darkness of not-being, where is at home and has the knack of feeling his way, and it is the darkness of the place that makes him so hard to perceive… Whereas the philosopher, whose thoughts constantly dwell upon the nature of reality, is difficult to see because his region …
The paperback of the Introduction to Philosophical Principles: Logic, Physics, and the Human Person is now available from Amazon. You can still download the complete PDF here for free (donations appreciated), but if like me, you prefer a physical copy, the paperback has been priced at a very affordable $11.75--and for something that is print-on-demand, the …
The wait is over! At least, for the PDF--I have a few small tweaks to make to the paperback before I list it for sale, but that should be completed within the week. In the meanwhile, you can find the PDF available here, as well as a permanent page describing the book and maintaining a …
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The text of this talk (given 19 March 2019 at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, MI) is now available here. I'll be recording a video of myself presenting it (audio recording did not work out during the initial presentation) sometime in the near future as well.
After drafting, revising, editing, revising again, taking some space, and revising one last time, I have completed the text of the Introduction to Philosophical Principles. I am still fine-tuning a few last things--the proverbial dotting of i's and crossing of t's--before I release the final, complete PDF, including figuring out what precisely I need to do …
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Electricity, more than any other technological innovation in the history of humankind, changed our perceptual habits: not only by the disruption of our circadian cycle, but by the way in which it allowed us to create products of mass culture and subsequently perfuse our lives with them. That is: culture has held a prominent role …
Continue reading "Sex & Gender: The Irreducible Masculine and Feminine"
My lack of blog entries lately is not due to lack of desire or effort; only a lack of time. Projects and request always seem to stack up all at once. That said, I do have some exciting things coming up soon and others on the horizon. First, I am nearing completion on a short …
In an article published some years ago, Fr. Joseph Koterski, SJ, made several salient points about the need for, despite the confusion about, authority in any society (2002: "Defending Authority" in Grasso and Hunt, eds., A Moral Enterprise: Essays in Honor of Francis Canavan, 107-25). Most especially, as he noted, are the need and the confusion experienced in academia …
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