Process and the Derailing of Reality: Love and Violence (Part V)
In this fifth part of the essay I would like to consider what a Platonic speculative realism might tell us about Eros – desire in all its…
Niklas Luhmann’s Love: A Sketch
Love: A Sketch. Niklas Luhmann. Polity, 2010. In 1969, a German sociologist named Niklas Luhmann delivered a lecture at Bielefeld University in the year of its…
Philosopher of Love: David L. Schindler
For the orthodox Christian, is doing one’s public duty more or less reducible to voting for the most socially conservative Republican on the ballot—and then shutting up…
Love and the Postmodern Predicament: Rediscovering the Real in Beauty, Goodness, and Truth
Love and the Postmodern Predicament: Rediscovering the Real in Beauty, Goodness, and Truth. D.C. Schindler. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2018. Love and the Postmodern Predicament aims…
Augustine on Love, Justice, and Pluralism in Human Nature
Justice is an integral theme in Augustine’s political theology, and justice is directly correlated and contingent upon his theology of love. True justice, for Augustine, begins with…
Transformative Love and The Recovery of Tradition in Mr. Sammler’s Planet
A controversial novel when it was first published, Saul Bellow’s Mr. Sammler’s Planet (1970) remains worth revisiting, even though the social and political conflicts of the 1960s…
The Politics and Experience of Active Love in The Brothers Karamazov
Early reception of The Brothers Karamazov ranged from praise to condemnation, with most of the criticism and debate focused on Book V’s The Tale of the Grand…
Fathers and Sons: The Principle of Love in Turgenev’s Liberalism
The importance of place is often neglected by liberal theorists, with the assumption that liberal ideas are understood and articulated in the same manner from one society…
The History of Love
A Philosophical History of Love. Wayne Cristaudo. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers 2012. Tina Turner once asked us, “What’s love got to do with it?” Wayne Cristaudo’s A…
Dostoevsky’s Heroines; Or, On the Compassion of the Russian Woman
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.…
Grounded in Compassionate Love: Aristotle, Lonergan, and Nussbaum
Love and Objectivity in Virtue Ethics: Aristotle, Lonergan, and Nussbaum on Emotions and Moral Insight. Robert J. Fitterer. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. Reviewing books…
Havers Replies to Lincoln Review
Professor Glenn Moots concludes his review on the critical note that my study of Lincoln’s usage of Christian charity will be valued only by readers who need…
More Lincoln; Less Political Debate
Lincoln and the Politics of Christian Love. Grant N. Havers. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2009. The central argument of Professor Havers’s new book is…
Lincoln, Charity and “We, the People”
They said, some men are too ignorant, and vicious, to share in government. Possibly so, said we; and, by your system, you would always keep them ignorant…
Eros, Wisdom and Silence of Plato (Part II)
Classical and Contemporary Eros In the Theages, Demodocus, a rural landowner and a committed democrat, approaches Socrates with his son Theages in tow. Demodocus is fearful because…