Christian Faith and Friendship in the Academy
I thank the organizers for inviting me to discuss our theme, how Christian faith can inform friendships in the academy. As I begin, I would invite all…
Working Knowledge: Making the Human Sciences from Parsons to Kuhn
Working Knowledge: Making the Human Sciences from Parsons to Kuhn. Joel Isaac. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012. Working Knowledge presents an institutional history of the “human…
Quantum Mechanics and Religion Revisited
At a 1932 conference on quantum mechanics it was suggested that physicists should not worry about what quantum mechanics indicates about the nature of reality and they…
The Question of Order. Eric Voegelin’s Introduction to a New Sociology
“What is permanent in the history of mankind is not the symbols but man himself in search of his humanity and its order.” (E. Voegelin, Equivalents of…
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…
Scientific Higher Education in America
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…
Review Maladies of Modernity: Scientism and the Deformation of Political Order
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…
Review of Maladies of Modernity: Scientism and the Deformation of Political Order
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…
Hierarchy, Beauty, and Freedom: D. H. Lawrence’s Response To Techno-Industrial Modernity
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…
Blaise Pascal: The Mathematical and the Intuitive Mind
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
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…
The Critique of Scientism in Defense of the Political Community (Part III)
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…
The Critique of Scientism in Defense of the Political Community (Part II)
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 Critique of Scientism in Defense of the Political Community (Part I)
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…