For I saw it was impossible to do anything without friends and loyal followers; and to find such men ready to hand would be a piece of sheer good luck, once our city was no longer guided by the customs and practices of our fathers, while to train up new ones was anything but easy.
- Plato, Epistle VII, 325d.
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Thank-you Professor Cheng, the Lingnan University Office of Global Education, and the sponsors of this conference for inviting me to join you at this crucially important conference in this beautiful hotel. It is a great honour to come all the way from Canada to speak to you today.
The question of how the Western ideal of liberal education fits with Asian…
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Jonathan Radcliffe (Australian National University)
Kojin Karatani's Isonomia and the Origins of Philosophy
Karatani is a kind of heretical Marxist - and a very interesting one at that. He rereads economic history not as a series of developmental stages, but as four “modes” that occur and recur: gift economies, state formation, capitalism…
Liu Xiaobo was the Chinese dissident writer and 2010 Nobel Peace Prize recipient who passed away this past June. He died of liver cancer while serving out the eleven-year sentence he received in 2009 for his role in the Charter 08 movement that modeled itself after the Charter 68 movement of dissidents of communism in Czechoslovakia. Liu’s work promoting freedom…
Conversation and the “Turning Around of the Soul”
One of the common criticisms of the contemporary university is that it lacks individuals unwilling or incapable of conversing. Critics such as Anthony Kronman and Stephen Miller rightly observe that there’s something about contemporary culture and the contemporary university hostile to the arts or to habits of conversation. Conversation has had a place…
To be a teacher of the humanities at a university means participating in a community dedicated to inquiring into the good for human beings. As members of a community of teachers, scholars, and students, we share an equality because no individual possesses a firm grip on the truth of that good. As teachers, we are unequal to our students by…
The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao. Ian Johnson. New York: Pantheon Books, 2017.
“For I saw it was impossible to do anything without friends and loyal followers; and to find such men ready to hand would be a piece of sheer good luck, once our city was no longer guided by the customs and practices of our…
A Torch Kept Lit: Great Lives of the Twentieth Century. William F. Buckley with James Rosen, ed. New York: Crown Forum, 2016.
James Rosen provides the reader with a selection of obituaries written by William F. Buckley for National Review. The cast of characters memorialized include significant political figures, family, entertainers and artists, friends, and friends who were political adversaries.
It is…
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Jacqueline Pfeffer-Merrill (Fund for Academic Renewal)
Dickens' other fine Christmas pieces besides A Christmas Carol - the best is surely The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain, but worthwhile too is The Goblins Who Stole a Sexton.
Tilo Schabert (University of Erlangen)
Sir Walter Scott's Old Mortality
The novel deals with the conflict between religious…
No one is obliged to take part in the spiritual crises of society; on the contrary, everyone is obliged to avoid the folly and live his life in order.
― Eric Voegelin, Science, Politics, and Gnosticism
Technological Rule
“I saw some of the turning beauties of the sky/ And we came out to see, once more, the stars.”[1] So concludes Dante’s voyage through…
Can a Natural Disaster be a Symbol of Truth? The Indian Ocean Tsunami: a Voegelinian/Desmondian Meditation 
The Life of the Scholar 
The Use of Force 
“A Cow Is Just a Cow”: George Grant and Eric Voegelin on the United States 
The Collected Works: The Drama of Humanity (Volume 33) 
Eric Voegelin as Master Teacher 
New Political Religions, or An Analysis of Modern Terrorism 
What is a Miracle? 
What Enlightenment, Exactly? 
God is Not Just the Good, as Plato Claimed But Love 
A Reading and Commentary on Michael Kirwan’s Political Theology 
John Rawls’ “On Religion” 
The Personal Is Always Political: A Conversation with David Walsh 
War, Progress, and Sociology in the Age of Ideology 
The Essential College Professor: A Practical Guide to an Academic Career 
The Faculty Factor: Reassessing the American Academy in a Turbulent Era 
A New History of the Humanities: The Search for Principles and Patterns from Antiquity to the Present 
Teacher Education and the Pursuit of Wisdom: A Practical Guide for Education Philosophy Course 
Into the Abyss: A Semester with Nietzsche 
Technocracy Comes to Campus 
