Hedonophia
Sometimes, a suggestion from the crowd, though of little merit in itself, may stir those who are wiser to correction and emendation, and so initiate the subsequent…
Niemeyer’s America
The Loss and Recovery of Truth. Gerhart Niemeyer with Michael Henry, ed. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press, 2013. Those who come to America’s shores, and…
Merely a Matter of Time
A Letter to G. H. Müller January 27, 1978 Dear Mr. Mueller: Your letter, dated Fall 1977, has been lying unanswered on my desk.1 The reason:…
Scientism Unbound: Baudrillard and the Critique of Technology (Part II)
These other types of repercussion are less tangible forms of blowback, such as disease or environmental disaster, but are equally worrisome. They are perceptual in nature and…
Scientism Unbound: Baudrillard and the Critique of Technology (Part I)
“The damage of scientism is done.”1 So said Eric Voegelin in 1948, amidst the afterglow of the allied defeat of fascism on the continent. The damage he…
Morality and the Pursuit of Happiness: Understanding the Meaning and Relevance of Eudaimonism
“Why Be Moral?” Among the many questions that contemporary moral philosophers have raised over the past few decades is the question: Why be Moral? Nearly all contemporary…
Love and Natural Law
The Perspective of Love: Natural Law in a New Mode. R. J. Snell. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2014. To borrow a line, R. J. Snell’s The…
Matters of Substance and Style
Dear Robert: Your kindness has caused me considerable pangs of conscience. Such attention to detail must have cost you much more time than I had anticipated it…