Wealth of Persons: Economics with a Human Face
Wealth of Persons: Economics with a Human Face. John McNerney. Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, 2016. There is need of a deep and saving counsel, like a…
Wealth of Persons: Economics with a Human Face. John McNerney. Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, 2016. There is need of a deep and saving counsel, like a…
The Far Reaches: Phenomenology, Ethics, and Social Renewal in Central Europe. Michael Gubser. Stanford University Press, 2014. With the on-going civilizational crisis that began with the…
Cultural history traditionally sets out to portray the character of an age as a whole. That is what the English historian of culture Christopher Dawson (1889-1970) set…
Professor Karol Wojtyla, who became Pope John Paul II, was first of all a philosopher, a pre-eminent one, on par with any and all great philosophers in…
The December 2016 issue of Quadrant includes my reflection on Pope Francis’s contribution to Catholic social and political reflection. I write as both a Catholic and a…
For more than a century and a half, the specter of secularization has haunted the West. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Max Weber famously spoke…
In my previous two essays, I wrote about how the ideas of periagoge and phronesis could be incorporated into the multiversity’s understanding of itself: an emphasis on…
Concepts of Nature: Ancient and Modern. R.J. Snell and Steven F. McGuire, eds.. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2016. The word, “nature,” is a broad term, often…
The Political Discourse of Carl Schmitt: A Mystic of Order. Montserrat Herrero. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. Montserrat Herrero is Associate Professor of Political Philosophy at…
I. Introduction: The Diadochic Kingdoms No area of Western history is quite as recondite as that of the Diadochic empires, the successor-kingdoms that sprang up in the…
In my last essay I wrote about how Plato could provide us a paradigm of periagoge and the methodology of dialectics for the multiversity, shifting students, faculty,…
Tilo Schabert's wonderfully vivid description of Eric Voegelin's work habits and his life in Palo Alto brings back many memories of my own during the years when…
Every religious tradition offers a soteriology – its own version of salvation called by whatever name – perhaps spiritual liberation as in the Hindu moksha or enlightenment…
God: An Autobiography as Told to a Philosopher. Jerry L. Martin. Doylestown, PA: Caladium Publishing Co., 2016. God an Autobiography is a book of 360 pages…
Let us begin our inquiry with the following datum: The human experience of the Divine Reality has often, though not always, been an encounter with a personal…