Can the Rich Go to Heaven? A Lesson from Luke 18
Luke 18 opens with Jesus’s responding to his disciples’ discouragement in the face of life’s hardships. Jesus proposes a parable indicating that the question we should ask…
The Good Samaritan: A Phenomenological Sermon
Who has not heard of Jesus’s parable of the Good Samaritan, from Luke 10? Who has not been told that the parable calls us to love our…
Leopardi’s Eternity: A Translation and Interpretation of The Infinite
Among the foremost minds that gave dignity to the Italian language, stands Count Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837), whose poem “The Infinite” (L’infinito) invites awakening to the essence of…
The Ideology of Transparency: Creating the New Sodom and Gomorrah
“Let us be straightforward and say that our age is not that of secrets, but of their opposite, transparency. There is even, more or less confusedly, an…
The Problem of Interpretation
Here shall he hunt [this beast] through every city until he will have sent her back into the underworld there whence envy first dispatched her.[1] The problem…
What is Perversion?
Etymologically, perversion designates an overturning, a thorough subversion with respect to a proper telos, a natural course and end. To pervert an art is to turn it…
The Despotic Pitfalls of Technology
Technology is often conceived as an extension of our body. A misleading conception. Consider our cameras: they are not mere or innocent extensions of our eyes. They…
The False Freedom of Childish Progressivism
Untrained children represent a formidable danger to a society committed to trapping nature in the straightjacket of ideological demands and expectations. Insofar as those children have not…
Pleasure and Duty in the Brave New World We Live In
“Nietzsche merely says: ‘No shepherd and one herd, everyone will the same, everyone is the same, everyone is equal. He who feels differently goes voluntarily to the…
The Problem of Feelings in the Modern World
“Expel nature with a pitchfork, but every time it will return as conqueress to stealthily break through bilious aversions” (Horace, Epistles, 1.10)[1] Modern discourse has expelled nature…
Apologia pro malo: On The Classical Significance of Evil
In the modern marketplace of shadows of life—a ghastly theatre in which everything and everyone is merchandise—we are distracted by technologically-spun and mediated choices that appear false…
The Problems of Technology as God
In our Age of Information, we are bombarded daily by answers forged to distract us from natural questions, questions we are born to ask. Technology does not…
The Knowledge and Virtue of the Future
The notion of a necessary connection between knowledge and virtue is all but alien to our times. The Machiavellian revolution and the “inversion of values” it involved…
The Bankruptcy of Evolutionism
Evolutionism is a “scientific theory”. By that we usually mean that it is a doctrine that abstracts “scientifically” data, or strictly quantifiable facts, without any concern (or…
The Death that Makes Life Bearable
Is there a place for “the question of death” in the education of human beings and citizens? What might that place be? How might the question be…