Letter from Vienna (February 2011)
In Banes, a hole-in-the-wall along Köllnerhofgasse and only a block from my flat, I see people meeting for drinks every evening. Some of them appear to be…
In Banes, a hole-in-the-wall along Köllnerhofgasse and only a block from my flat, I see people meeting for drinks every evening. Some of them appear to be…
God, Philosophy, Universities: A Selective History of Catholic Philosophical Tradition. Alasdair MacIntyre. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009. In Ex Corde Ecclesiae John Paul II reiterated…
We have met the enemy and they are ours. —Oliver Hazard Perry, letter to General Harrison after the victory over the British fleet at Lake Erie, 1813.…
On this occasion we will consider the Encyclical Letter of John Paul II, Faith and Reason (Fides et ratio), which he released on September 15th, 1998. We…
In the course of the analysis of Islamist terrorism, we made a basic analytical distinction that needs to be discussed in more detail. On the one hand,…
On our desk lie a number of small and rather drab books. They are 3 ½ by 5 inches, a size that fits nicely into a shirt…
The humanists may well be right if they do not follow the classical philosophers in developing principles based on the bios theoretikos, or Christian thinkers into a…