From the Multiversity Cave: Augustine and Amare
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…
From the Multiversity Cave: Aristotle and Phronesis
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,…
From the Multiversity Cave: Plato and Periagoge
What can Plato teach us about higher education today? At first glance, it would appear very little in an age of standardized assessment, digitized curricula, and competency-based…
Give Me Liberty: Studies in Constitutionalism and Philosophy
Give Me Liberty: Studies in Constitutionalism and Philosophy. Ellis Sandoz. St. Augustine’s Press, 2013. Ellis Sandoz’s Give Me Liberty: Studies in Constitutionalism and Philosophy is a…
Conserving America? Essays on Present Discontents
Conserving America? Essays on Present Discontents. Patrick J. Deneen. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press, 2016. The current political polarization in the country today can be…
Civil Liberty, Communal Safety
Disease and Democracy: The Industrialized World Faces AIDS. Peter Baldwin. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. Although seemingly a historical account of European and American public…
Trust in Society
Trust in Society. Karen S. Cook, ed. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2001. Trust in Society is the second volume on trust sponsored by the Russell…
Egalitarianism
Egalitarianism is movements within social and political philosophy that can be either foundational or distributional in nature. Foundational egalitarianism describes people as equal beings by nature; distributional…
Faith, Philosophy, and Postmodernism in Voegelin
Faith and Political Philosophy the Correspondence between Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin, 1934-1964. Peter Emberley and Barry Cooper, ed. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2004. Eric…
On Voegelin: Modernity and Gnosticism
Eric Voegelin (1901-85) is often portrayed as one of the severest critics of modernity–its belief in human reason’s ability to understand and convey the fundamental structures of…
The Primary of the Persons in Politics
The Primary of the Persons in Politics: Empiricism and Political Philosophy. John von Heyking and Thomas Heilke, eds. Washington D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2013.…
Hunting and Weaving: Empiricism and Political Philosophy
Hunting and Weaving: Empiricism and Political Philosophy. Thomas Heilke and John von Heyking, eds. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press, 2013. Thomas Heilke’s and John von…
The Postmodern Subject
In the previous chapter, McGuire illuminates how Voegelin’s analysis of Aristotle shows that ethics and politics are to be based on one’s noetic participation in an nonobjective,…
Religious Modernity
The Theological Origins of Modernity. Michael Allen Gillespie. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Seeking to clarify what we mean by “modernity,” Michael Gillespie provides an…
Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth
Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth. David Bentley Hart. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2003. The Beauty of the Infinite is a…