Ex Machina: A Story of Chaste Love Murdered by the Ending
Alan Turing invented the ideational basis of modern computers with his concept of a universal machine. The machine had a write/erase head and a strip of paper…
Alan Turing invented the ideational basis of modern computers with his concept of a universal machine. The machine had a write/erase head and a strip of paper…
So it is characteristic of us professors of political philosophy to neglect what is really going in the “hard” sciences. I remember, for example, being astonished that…
Maladies of Modernity: Scientism and the Deformation of Political Order. David Whitney. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press, 2019. David Whitney’s Maladies of Modernity: Scientism and…
Maladies of Modernity: Scientism and the Deformation of Political Order. David Whitney. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine Press, 2019. David Whitney’s excellent critique of what he…
The discussion which follows is intended to provide more evidence for what a number of scholars have recently been contending about Lawrence’s fundamental ontological vision. It derives…
Matters of faith, philosophy, and theology were the center of intellectual debate at the beginning of the modern era. A previous age of traditions and institutions was…
The Centrality of the Regime for Political Science. Clifford Angell Bates, Jr. Warsaw, Poland: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Waszawskiego, 2016. The Centrality of the Regime for Political Science…
Beyond Scientism and Towards Political Community Scruton and Walsh, through an examination of scientism in relation to the person, have argued for the irreplaceable dignity of the…
Walsh and Scientism The methodology of scientism described by Scruton in the preceding chapter points to the rejection of limitation for persons. Limitation, understood as the framework…
The Person and Scientism The potential for human beings to achieve political success, as defined by the formation and maintenance of prosperous communities, can only be fulfilled…
"What is happening in the Muslim world is not so much an outburst of fanaticism as a frantic last-ditch effort to ward off the specter of -…
In the previous essay I examined how Renaissance Humanism and the religious reformations can contribute to improving the multiversity as an institution that promotes the public good…
Chapter 3 of The Ecumenic Age is called "The Process of History." There, Eric Voegelin reviews the ancient notions of "cosmos," "oikoumene," and "okeanos," the parameters of…
In an article I wrote in 1981, I made a first attempt to describe Eric Voegelin's work-method, his Arbeitsmethode. At the time I focused on the early…
The debate about scientism (also referred to as positivism or scientific reductionism) is an argument over the validity of applying the methods of the natural sciences to…