Hunting and Weaving: Empiricism and Political Philosophy
Earlier this year I was in Dublin to take part in the presentation of a Festschrift to Brendan Purcell. David Walsh, one of the editors, remarked that,…
Earlier this year I was in Dublin to take part in the presentation of a Festschrift to Brendan Purcell. David Walsh, one of the editors, remarked that,…
The Need for Political Philosophy A reflection on the legacy of Eric Voegelin and Leo Strauss must start from the following general questions: What is political philosophy?…
In the historical drama of revelation, the Unknown God ultimately becomes the God known through His presence in Christ. This drama, though it has been alive in…
This exchange has been assembled from an email correspondence between Zdravko Planinc and James M. Rhodes that occurred in August and October 2007, and which both men…
Readers of Dostoevsky’s political novels recognize well that he is engaged in pitched battle against the West for the spiritual direction of Russia and his Russian brethren.…
God and man, world and society form a primordial community of being. The community with its quaternarian structure is, and is not, a datum of human experience.…
Disentangling Plato from the Eleatic Stranger The two articles I am discussing today–James Rhodes’ “The Real Name of the Stranger: The Meaning of Plato’s Statesman” and Zdravko…
What? All of it? For a long time ( longtemps, if you will ) reading aloud had been a custom in our home. This had begun with…
The Ought is not itself a "postulate" or a "norm" but the experienced tension between the order of being and the conduct of man. In the orbit…