Grant, Time, and Eternity
Introduction Over the course of his prodigious career, George Grant, on a number of occasions, undertook to rethink both himself and his relationship to philosophy and theology.…
Rape, Shame, and Guilt in Augustine’s City of God
Guilt and Shame It is, to this author's knowledge, a unique occurrence within the ancient world for a writer of stature to dedicate any significant volume of…
Huntington, Kuhn, and Toynbee: Analyzing and Critiquing the Relativism Underpinning the Clash of Civilizations Thesis
Abstract The release of Samuel P. Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations was the occasion for quite the stir in academic circles. Perhaps more importantly, his ideas of…
A Brief Commentary on the Anthropology of Aeschylus’ Oresteia
Introduction: Aeschylus, the Cosmos and the Cosmion A great gulf lies between the Minoans and Mycenaeans of the 2nd millennium B.C, on the one shore, and the…
Reflections on Book IX of The Iliad
Book IX of The Iliad can be read as an enucleation of Achilles’ wrath. In its construction, the book opposes Achilles’ fine cholos with precedents of greater…
The Diagnosis of Scientism: Eric Voegelin and Michael Polanyi on Science and Philosophy
On the first day of his 1951 Walgreen Lectures, standing before a distinguished audience at the University of Chicago, Eric Voegelin made many remarks which may have…
The Pharaoh, the Two Lands, and The Apocalypse: An Analysis of the Breakdown of the Cosmological Order of Existence in Classical Egypt
Within the course of his writing of Order & History (itself a more than thirty year affair) Eric Voegelin wrote two sustained studies of Ancient Egypt. In…
Scientism and the Market Economy
The Power of Market Fundamentalism: Karl Polanyi's Critique. Fred Block and Margaret R. Somers. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014. 352 pp. Hardcover, $49.95. Karl Polanyi is…