Can Ideas Be Bad?
As forms of intelligibility, ideas disclose thought—as questions, doors to the understanding, to awakening, to “spiritual light.” In this respect all ideas are good. Can there then…
As forms of intelligibility, ideas disclose thought—as questions, doors to the understanding, to awakening, to “spiritual light.” In this respect all ideas are good. Can there then…
Does art mean anything? Let us be precise from the outset about terms. Art stands traditionally as a counterpart of nature.[1] When Shakespeare has Hamlet spell out…
Johannes Vermeer’s two foremost allegories—that of the Catholic Faith and that of the Art of Painting—help us understand the painter’s “Woman Holding a Balance” (hereafter, WHB), inviting…
Our pluralistic societies celebrate the arts in their open-ended diversity. We celebrate the manifold forms of expression making up the wealth of a world that has domesticated…
“Logic is to be conceived […] as the realm [Reich] of pure thought. This realm is truth as it is without veil and absolutely. It can therefore…
Has science evolved into technology? This question deserves unpacking. “Science” here refers to a modern variant of rationalism, the “autonomous” one that Edmund Husserl bashed as a…
“Men first sense what is necessary; then they attend to what is useful; afterwards, they notice what is comfortable; further on, they take delight in pleasure; thereafter,…
“As long as you abide within my discourse, you are my students; and you will know the truth, and the truth shall set you free” —John 8.32…
There is a categorical rift between classical and modern (progressive or avant-garde) painting, for modern painting as such ceases to be “imitation of nature” in the classical…
Scholarship is at times not unlike the stock market. - Teodolinda Barolini Teodolinda Barolini’s Dante’s Multitudes is a must-read for any student of literary criticism who…
The seventeenth century French querelle des anciens et des modernes suggests that the dawn of the modern world is marked by the rise of a new theatre. …
Luke 14 invites us to appreciate emptiness as necessary condition for receiving the divine gift of the eternal life of the mind. Ascent to the eternal is…
The modern world is defined by the rise of a new self that is neither mind, nor body, nor a function of either, but an autonomous entity…
Human fallenness, as the final scene of Fellini’s labyrinthian Satyricon confirms (relentlessly exploring the grotesque facets of Plato’s Cave), entails loss of being, our reduction to the…
Sir Thomas More’s Platonism transpires most vividly from his humbling message that the establishment of justice on earth would require the abolition of humanity. Not that certain…